In this five-day workshop video series, EiB's Breeding Operations Network for Development (BOND) and IITA facilitated operational leads and breeders in the West Africa region to build knowledge, and discuss progress to improve regional breeding operations.
This video series covers features recordings from workshop sessions, with training, knowledge sharing, and discussion on various issues related to crop breeding operations.Topics included seed processing, plotmanship, gender, health & safety and much more.
Sessions were recorded in February 2022 at IITA HQ in Nigeria. For more information and agenda, visit the event page. The workshop agenda was repeated in Uganda in March 2022, focusing on East and Southern African operations staff.
Access all 22 sessions from the workshop on the workshop's Youtube playlist.
Session videos:
- Event intro & IITA center operations overview: Breeding Operations Workshop 1.1
- Components of a breeding operations structure: Breeding Operations Workshop 1.2
- Shared services and CGIAR Initiative Design: Breeding Operations Workshop 1.3
- Centralizing IITA breeding operations: Breeding Operations Workshop 1.4
- Intro to Accelerated Breeding Initiative: Breeding Operations Workshop 1.5
- Centralizing breeding operations, IRRI: Breeding Operations Workshop 1.6
- Quality Management Systems - Steffen Weber: Breeding Operations Workshop 2.1
- Health, Safety, Security & Environment - Alick Mulenga, IITA: Breeding Operations Workshop 2.2
- Health, safety, security and environment - IITA: Breeding Operations Workshop 2.3
- Plotmanship and field management: Breeding Operations Management 2.4
- Plotmanship and field management: Breeding Operations Workshop 2.5
- Gender inclusion in breeding operations: Breeding Operations Workshop 2.6
- Irrigation: The ideal scenario in West Africa?: Breeding Operations Workshop 3.1
- Station field equipment management & maintenance: Breeding Operations Workshop 3.2
- Seed Processing: Breeding Operations Workshop 3.3
- Seed processing, irrigation and the BOND network: Breeding Operations Workshop 3.4
- Greenhouse structures and controlled environments: Breeding Operations Workshop 4.1
- EiB capacity development and the BOND network: Breeding Operations Workshop 4.2
- Operational Excellence & building continuous improvement teams: Breeding Operations Workshop 4.3
- Continuous improvement and operational excellence at IITA: Breeding Operations Workshop 4.4
- NARES in West Africa: Breeding Operations Workshop 4.5
- Event summary & focus group discussion: Breeding Operations Workshop 5.1
- Event evaluation discussion: Breeding Operations Workshop 5.2
- Wrap-up discussions: Breeding Operations Workshop 5.3