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CIAT beans shipped to Svalbard Global Seed Vault Credit: CIAT / Neil Palmer.

In East and Southern Africa, PABRA pilots the first regional Product Advancement Meeting for beans

Breeding for Tomorrow

08.09.25

The demand for common beans is growing fast as more consumers embrace plant-based diets. Once…

How AfricaRice transforms shared tools into impact for rice breeding

AfricaRice

04.09.25

Food security
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs

By Dr. Baboucarr Manneh, Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) Director General In the face of urgent…

Demonstrating the use of a mobile phone app in a field, Nepal. Credit: Photo by C. De Bode/CGIAR

How Fairgrounds (previously AgPile) connects data and crop breeders – with early examples

CGIAR Initiative on Breeding Resources

27.08.25

Big data
Nutrition, health & food security

In early 2025, CGIAR received a grant from the Gates Foundation to develop AgPile, a…

Dr Abebe Menkir (right), maize breeder and fall armyworm specialist with IITA and MAIZE, speaks with Bello Abu Bakkar (left) maize farmer and president of the Nigerian Maize Association. Photo by C. de Bode/CGIAR

What is Enable, the new coordination engine supporting CGIAR crop breeding?

Breeding for Tomorrow

25.08.25

By Biswanath Das, Enable Area of Work Lead, CGIAR Breeding for Tomorrow ENABLE is the…

Mainstreaming nutrition in CGIAR breeding: X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) services ready to scale

CGIAR Initiative on Breeding Resources

25.08.25

Nutrition, health & food security

Reducing global undernutrition remains one of CGIAR’s most pressing opportunities for impact. For …

Inside the global effort to defend rice from major diseases

International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

18.08.25

Food security

By Van Schepler-Luu & Myrtel Anne Valenzuela Rice diseases such as bacterial blight and blast…

Group picture: NARO team together with Accelerated Breeding Transform team members in Uganda

Ugandan breeders take the lead in crop innovation through new grant-based model

CGIAR Initiative on Accelerated Breeding

13.08.25

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Nutrition, health & food security

By Godfrey Asea, Senior Principal Research Scientist, National Agricultural Research Organisation (N…

Maize Product Design Team meeting, at KALRO, organised in collaboration with CGIAR Accelerated Breeding

How breeding networks are fostering the development of better crop varieties in East Africa

CGIAR Initiative on Accelerated Breeding

13.08.25

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Nutrition, health & food security

By Dr. Eliud K. Kireger, Director General and Dr. Benjamin Kivuva, Assistant Director, Crop Improvem…

Woman sells fufu in a marketplace, Abuja - a staple food of many African and Caribbean countries. It is often made with a flour made from the cassava plant. ©IFPRI: Milo Mitchell

How NRCRI and CGIAR are shaping the next generation of root and tuber crops in Nigeria

CGIAR Initiative on Accelerated Breeding

12.08.25

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Nutrition, health & food security

By Chiedozie Egesi, Executive Director/CEO, National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI) Nigeria�…

Adoption studies informing breeding market segments, Product Profiles and seed system interventions in Southeast Asia

CGIAR Initiative on Market Intelligence

12.08.25

Food security

by Jonathan Newby, Erik Delaquis, Luz Andrea Gomez, Adriana Bohorquez Cassava production in Mainland…

Let’s map together: using spatial analysis to support market segmentation

CGIAR Initiative on Market Intelligence

11.08.25

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Nutrition, health & food security

By Bert Lenaerts & Neale Paguirigan In 2025, approximately 690 Seed Product Market Segments (SPM…

How do Filipino consumers view and value healthier rice?

International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

11.08.25

Nutrition

IRRI scientists explored the perspective of Filipino consumers to see how they view and value…

Felistus Chipungu (left), orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) breeder and scientist with the International Potato Center. Photo by C. de Bode/CGIAR.

Why CGIAR crop breeding is shifting focus to breakthrough products

Breeding for Tomorrow

08.08.25

Nutrition, health & food security

By Peter Coaldrake, CGIAR Breeding for Tomorrow’s Interim Director and Christian Werner, Quantitat…

Wheat fields at the Campo Experimental Norman E. Borlaug (CENEB) near Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico. Photo credit: M. Ellis/CIMMYT.

A new direction for CGIAR crop breeding to invest where it counts

CGIAR Initiative on Accelerated Breeding

08.08.25

Climate adaptation & mitigation
Nutrition, health & food security

Message from Breeding for Tomorrow (B4T) Interim Director Peter Coaldrake to CGIAR Breeders, Nationa…

Sita Kumari, farmer, uses mobile phone apps to enhance her yields and get access to markets and labor. Credit: C. De Bode/CGIAR

CGIAR’s digital and breeding entities team up for smarter crop innovation

Breeding for Tomorrow

08.08.25

Big data

By Ram Dhulipala, Interim Director of CGIAR’s Digital Transformation Accelerator, and Peter Coaldr…

Group picture of the first cohort of mentees of Breeding Resources Knowledge Exchange Program (KEP). Credit: Revathi Ponnuswamy, ICAR.

Need training on breeding tools and services? Start here.

CGIAR Initiative on Breeding Resources

05.08.25

As global food-security challenges intensify, the urgency to strengthen capacity in breeding program…

Group pictures of the PDT meetings of the soybean breeding network in East Africa. Credit: Lennin Musundire. This work contributes to CGIAR Breeding for Tomorrow (B4T) Science Program through its Accelerated Breeding and Enable areas of work.

Why a soybean breeding network in East Africa makes sense now

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

23.07.25

By Dr Godfree Chigeza, Soybean Breeder, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), De…

ICRISAT to deliver world-class services as CGIAR's Breeding Resources South Asia Hub

Breeding for Tomorrow

07.07.25

Nutrition, health & food security

Strategic collaboration to scale innovation and deliver harmonized, high-quality support across CGIA…

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In East and Southern Africa, PABRA pilots the first regional Product Advancement Meeting for beans

How AfricaRice transforms shared tools into impact for rice breeding

How Fairgrounds (previously AgPile) connects data and crop breeders – with early examples

What is Enable, the new coordination engine supporting CGIAR crop breeding?

Mainstreaming nutrition in CGIAR breeding: X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) services ready to scale

Inside the global effort to defend rice from major diseases

Ugandan breeders take the lead in crop innovation through new grant-based model

How breeding networks are fostering the development of better crop varieties in East Africa

How NRCRI and CGIAR are shaping the next generation of root and tuber crops in Nigeria

Adoption studies informing breeding market segments, Product Profiles and seed system interventions in Southeast Asia

Let’s map together: using spatial analysis to support market segmentation

How do Filipino consumers view and value healthier rice?

Why CGIAR crop breeding is shifting focus to breakthrough products

A new direction for CGIAR crop breeding to invest where it counts

CGIAR’s digital and breeding entities team up for smarter crop innovation

Need training on breeding tools and services? Start here.

Why a soybean breeding network in East Africa makes sense now

ICRISAT to deliver world-class services as CGIAR's Breeding Resources South Asia Hub