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Photo: Women’s focus group in Amhara state, Ethiopia (credit, Zemen Alayew) Martina Cavicchioli, Berber Kramer, Carly Trachtman Understanding how farmers and consumers choose varieties and products remains an important focus for CGIAR Initiative on Market Intelligence. A recently published International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Brief written by Martina Cavicchioli, Berber Kramer, and Carly Trachtman introduces a conceptual framework to

Bert Lenaerts, Matty Demont, Neale Paguirigan, Ruvicyn Bayot The GloMIP Impact Opportunities Portal provides access to about 200 development and crop production indicators, measuring impact opportunities across five CGIAR Impact Areas, 45 crops (including 20 CGIAR crops), and 171 countries. Where data was not initially measured at crop level, the portal overlaps national-level indicators with crop production or consumption through

Photo: Presentation of habanero segments in the field of Cotonou, Benin. Derek Barchenger, Herbaud Zohoungbogbo, Mwasilwa Ambali Collaboration between the World Vegetable Center and CGIAR Initiative on Market Intelligence yielded a preliminary set of seed product market segments for peppers in Western and Eastern Africa. These preliminary segments served as the basis for discussion during the validation workshops on pepper

Agnes Gitonga, Wuletaw Tadesse, Velu Govindan, Jason Donovan The initial seed product market segmentation exercise, led by the CGIAR Excellence in Breeding (EiB) platform, aimed to aid the design of center-specific pipeline investment cases. Therefore, each CGIAR center presented its set of seed product market segments (SPMSs) for every region in which it had active breeding efforts. This resulted in

Jonathan Newby Seed product market segments and consumer market segments The CGIAR Initiative on Market Intelligence seeks to help align the CGIAR and national agricultural research systems (NARES) investment in crop improvement to the existing and future needs and preferences of farmers, agribusiness, and consumers. To incorporate the views of multiple stakeholders, a shared language is needed between those engaged

The CGIAR Initiative on Market Intelligence will be leading the discussion on technological and institutional innovations and the role of market intelligence in making agri-food food systems more sustainable at the annual International Conference of Agricultural Economists to be held at New Delhi, India on 2-7 August. Chaired by Market Intelligence Lead Matty Demont and featuring some of the most

Photo: Participants discussing market segments for tomatoes in Benin  Mwasilwa Ambali, Mathieu Ayenan, Assaf Eybishitz Tomatoes are an important cash crop for thousands of farmers in Western and Eastern Africa. Since 1992, the World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) has supported seed companies and national agricultural research and extension systems (NARES) with improved breeding lines and varieties of tomatoes. To better guide

Breeding is a numbers game, which, being data-driven, needs accurate and precise numbers. The Dryland Crops Program (DCP) of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), in collaboration with National Agricultural Research and Extension Systems (NARES) partners, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), the Alliance of Biodiversity International & CIAT, and other African institutions, has established the African