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CGIAR leading the charge: How data analytics is transforming crop breeding
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)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
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)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
CGIAR Initiative on Breeding Resources06.05.24-
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
CGIAR Initiative on Breeding Resources18.04.24-
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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
CGIAR Initiative on Breeding Resources06.05.24-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
In Muguga, on the outskirts of Nairobi in Kenya, stands a group of greenhouses, nestled…
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Accelerating wheat breeding, from Toluca in Mexico to the world
CGIAR Initiative on Breeding Resources12.11.25-
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In Mexico, a project has been completed to develop new elite parental lines of wheat…
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CGIAR and HarvestPlus support national policy change to embed nutrition in every seed
CGIAR Initiative on Breeding Resources06.11.25For over two decades, biofortification has helped make staple crops more nutritious for more than…
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How AfricaRice transforms shared tools into impact for rice breeding
AfricaRice04.09.25-
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
By Dr. Baboucarr Manneh, Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) Director General In the face of urgent…
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How Fairgrounds (previously AgPile) connects data and crop breeders – with early examples
CGIAR Initiative on Breeding Resources27.08.25-
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Nutrition, health & food security
In early 2025, CGIAR received a grant from the Gates Foundation to develop AgPile, a…
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Mainstreaming nutrition in CGIAR breeding: X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) services ready to scale
CGIAR Initiative on Breeding Resources25.08.25-
Nutrition, health & food security
Reducing global undernutrition remains one of CGIAR’s most pressing opportunities for impact. For …
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Need training on breeding tools and services? Start here.
CGIAR Initiative on Breeding Resources05.08.25As global food-security challenges intensify, the urgency to strengthen capacity in breeding program…
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ICRISAT to deliver world-class services as CGIAR's Breeding Resources South Asia Hub
Breeding for Tomorrow07.07.25-
Nutrition, health & food security
Strategic collaboration to scale innovation and deliver harmonized, high-quality support across CGIA…
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Breeding Resources Initiative Narrative Report - 2022-2024
CGIAR Initiative on Breeding Resources28.05.25[3d-flip-book pdf="https://storage.googleapis.com/cgiarorg/2025/05/Breeding-Resources-Narrative-Repo…
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Bioflow gets smarter with new modules and cloud features
CGIAR Initiative on Breeding Resources19.05.25-
Big data
The development of Bioflow, CGIAR's open-source breeding analytics pipeline, funded by GIZ through C…
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