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CGIAR leading the charge: How data analytics is transforming crop breeding
12.09.24-
Food security
Los Baños, Philippines (11 September 2024): In the fast-paced world of crop breeding, timing is…
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How CGIAR’s preferred data management platform advances IITA legume breeding
03.09.24Cowpea and soybean, two legumes, may not be as widely recognized as wheat or maize,…
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Technical staff at African research stations gain crucial trialling and nursery skills, improving continent-wide crop breeding data
06.05.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
Ensuring top-notch equipment reaches breeding research stations worldwide is vital, but equally cruc…
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Soft launch of CGIAR Breeding Analytics Pipeline enables complex quantitative genetic analyses for CGIAR crop breeders
18.04.24-
Big data
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Nutrition, health & food security
In late 2023, Breeding Resources Initiative tasked a fast-track team of biometricians with the devel…
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A new germplasm exchange facility in Kenya is set to boost East Africa food security via roots, tubers and bananas
06.05.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
In Muguga, on the outskirts of Nairobi in Kenya, stands a group of greenhouses, nestled…
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Breeding and Research Services publishes 13 standard operating procedures for trialling and nursery
11.12.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
Breeding Resources Initiative, through its Business Process Management unit, developed 13 Standard O…
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Guinea grass reference genome to open new territories in forage breeding
11.12.24-
Environmental health & biodiversity
By Rosa Jauregui, Tropical Forage Plant Breeder, Urochloa spp. and Megathyrsus maximus, the Alliance…
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Why early-stage on-farm sparse testing could be a game changer for crop breeding in Africa
11.12.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
By Mainassara Zaman-Allah, Christian Werner, Jill Cairns - CIMMYT Over 80% of the world’s 570…
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IRRI hosts CGIAR system-wide workshop on shared services for breeders in Asia
04.12.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Originally published on www.irri.org: https://news.irri.org/2024/11/irri-hosts-cgiar-system-wide-wor…
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CGIAR experts convene in Nairobi for Breeding Analytics Pipeline Hackathon
02.12.24Nairobi, Kenya – Building on the momentum of February’s inaugural hackathon, a team of biometric…
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Photo reportage: mechanizing crop breeding stations in Africa to drive data accuracy
13.11.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Mechanizing crop breeding stations is critical for optimizing the trialling and nursery processes in…
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CGIAR and NARES leaders convene in Dubai to strengthen breeding partnerships for global food security
02.11.24A high-level meeting of leaders from African National Agricultural Research and Extension Systems (N…
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RTB Breeding Network Formalizes Collaboration to Accelerate Genetic Gains for Smallholder Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa
15.10.24-
Nutrition, health & food security
Article by the International Potato Center (CIP) and the International Institute of Tropical Agricul…
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Five ways crop breeding can benefit rural women
14.10.24-
Gender equality
Five ways crop breeding can benefit rural women Updated version. Originally published in 2021 on…
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