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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-
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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-
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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-
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In Muguga, on the outskirts of Nairobi in Kenya, stands a group of greenhouses, nestled…
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How Fairgrounds (previously AgPile) connects data and crop breeders – with early examples
27.08.25-
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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
25.08.25-
Nutrition, health & food security
Reducing global undernutrition remains one of CGIAR’s most pressing opportunities for impact. For …
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Ugandan breeders take the lead in crop innovation through new grant-based model
13.08.25-
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By Godfrey Asea, Senior Principal Research Scientist, National Agricultural Research Organisation (N…
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How breeding networks are fostering the development of better crop varieties in East Africa
13.08.25-
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By Dr. Eliud K. Kireger, Director General and Dr. Benjamin Kivuva, Assistant Director, Crop Improvem…
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How NRCRI and CGIAR are shaping the next generation of root and tuber crops in Nigeria
12.08.25-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Nutrition, health & food security
By Chiedozie Egesi, Executive Director/CEO, National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI) Nigeria 
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Why CGIAR crop breeding is shifting focus to breakthrough products
08.08.25-
Nutrition, health & food security
By Peter Coaldrake, CGIAR Breeding for Tomorrow’s Interim Director and Christian Werner, Quantitat…
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A new direction for CGIAR crop breeding to invest where it counts
08.08.25-
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Message from Breeding for Tomorrow (B4T) Interim Director Peter Coaldrake to CGIAR Breeders, Nationa…
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Need training on breeding tools and services? Start here.
05.08.25As global food-security challenges intensify, the urgency to strengthen capacity in breeding program…
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Why a soybean breeding network in East Africa makes sense now
23.07.25By Dr Godfree Chigeza, Soybean Breeder, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), De…
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