Breeding for Tomorrow

By leveraging breeding modernization, market intelligence, and strengthened partnerships, we will improve seed systems,  boost agricultural productivity and resilience, reduce hunger, and enhance sustainability, particularly in the Global South. 

Where we will work in Central and West Asia and North Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, South and Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa

Challenges we’ll address

• Optimizing crops for mechanization, longer shelf-lives, simpler processing, and climate resilience to provide for the Global South’s growing populations
• Lowering agricultural costs without sacrificing nutrition
• Improve environmental sustainability

Breeding for Tomorrow will proactively engage women and other socially disadvantaged groups – such as the youth and indigenous communities – in their multiple roles as smallholders, seed-entrepreneurs, food producers, processors, traders, and consumers.

Interlinked support across CGIAR’s portfolio

We will work closely with the Better Diets and Nutrition, Climate Action, Genebanks, Policy Innovations, Scaling for Impact, Sustainable Animal and Aquatic Foods, Sustainable Farming programs, and the Capacity Sharing, Digital Transformation, and Gender Equality & Inclusion accelerators.

Working to share our capacity with

• National partners
• Non-partner countries, regions, and global platforms
• Scientists

• A global research infrastructure with an improved and diverse germplasm and direct access to its genebanks
• Established advanced breeding technologies
• A growing transdisciplinary expert network of globally renown international scientists, economists, breeders. climate change experts, and agronomists
• A trusted partner for local stakeholders across regions
• A strategic edge in delivering high-level outputs aligned with market and social needs
• A global, multi-product and multi-Impact Area mandate that allows us to set global standards for market intelligence and market-driven design of breeding products