Liberian rice farmer participating in a Seeds4Liberia project survey.(Photo courtesy of AfricaRice) by Edgar Twine In a recent Brookings “Viewpoint” article (Getting rice right in Liberia | Brookings), former Liberian Minister of Agriculture J. M. Cooper observed that Liberians “hold one truth to be self-evident: If one has not eaten rice on any given day, then one has not eaten.”
Each year, nearly one-third of the food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally. In the poorest regions, food loss and waste severely reduce food availability, driving up prices and limiting access to food for low-income households. The livelihoods of farmers and producers are also at risk when food must be sold at lower prices or discarded because
1. Seeds of Change Climate shifts, soil degradation and conflicts threaten food security in many countries worldwide. Every day, thousands of people struggle to find ways to ensure a stable food supply amid an uncertain future. For agricultural scientists, the pressing question is how their work can help minimise the impacts of these risks. Plant breeding, through improving the genetic
About Breeding Resources Initiative Breeding Resources Initiative is a global service provider facilitating the development of better crop varieties worldwide. It offers streamlined, top-tier breeding services to CGIAR breeders, breeding programs, and esteemed partners like National Agricultural Research and Extensions Systems (NARES) and Sub-Regional Organizations. Our clientele is expanding, and in the coming years we will concentrate on broadening our
CGIAR Breeding Resources Initiative has established a partnership with HarvestPlus and ICRISAT to complement the elemental analysis services available as shared resources for CGIAR and its partners. Globally, one in four children suffers from physical and cognitive stunting due to poor nutrition and over 2 billion people are affected by micronutrient deficiencies. In poor, rural and vulnerable populations – where
The CGIAR Initiative on Market Intelligence launches GloMIP, a global public platform for sharing market intelligence. Los Baños, Philippines – The CGIAR Initiative on Market Intelligence unveiled the Global Market Intelligence Platform (GloMIP), the next game changer in genetic innovation and impact programs across the world, at a virtual event held last June 7. GloMIP is the global public platform
Diego Naziri, Thiago Mendes, Elisa Salas, Moctar Kante, Sunil Chaudhari, Agnes Gitonga A consultative effort by the CGIAR Initiative on Market Intelligence, the International Potato Center (CIP), and national agricultural research and extension systems (NARES) identified an opportunity to refine the initial market segmentation for potato that focused on identifying seed product market segments (SPMSs) aligned with existing breeding pipelines,
Agnes Gitonga, Jason Donovan, Dean Muungani, Peter Coaldrake Seed product market segments (SPMSs) represent groups of farmers who share common seed product requirements. Currently, there are more than 600 SPMSs for all crops served by CGIAR breeding programs in the SPMS Database. The external-facing version of the database is hosted on the Global Market Intelligence Platform (GloMIP). We systematically identified