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Education, Seeds, and Women’s Leadership in Action.

This blog highlights how agribusinesses in Malawi and Zambia are translating science into scalable, investment-ready business models through the CGIAR Scaling for Impact (S4I) Agribusiness Bootcamp—advancing inclusive growth, climate resilience, and market-driven innovation across agrifood systems.

CGIAR Breeding for Tomorrow’s Accelerated Breeding team, together with Market Intelligence, recently spent ten days with IITA’s breeders working across maize, cowpea, soybean, cassava, yam, and banana. The goal was simple: strengthen alignment of Market Segments and Target Product Profiles (TPP), review breeding pipelines, and data systems.

Launched in January 2025 as a DTA-linked project, Fairgrounds aims to be the gateway for CGIAR to access global research data, while also opening CGIAR’s research data to the world.

Malawian smallholder farmers are turning beans into income and nutrition. Through improved seeds, cooperatives, and market access, farmers boost yields, earn profits, and build resilience, transforming livelihoods and strengthening local seed systems.

Ugandan farmers now master the value addition process to shift from selling raw grains to creating value-added and nutritious products, fostering income security and improve nutrition in their communities.

Homa Bay County leadership, researchers, and farmers met in November 2025 to co-produce climate-smart bean advisories, ensuring timely guidance for the ongoing short rains as climate risks continue to intensify.

Huge datasets are the cornerstone of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, including the large language models (LLMs) that power chatbots and other generative AI applications.