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At KEPHIS Plant Quarantine and Biosecurity Station in Muguga, Kenya, CGIAR is developing a germplasm exchange laboratory. This facility will ease the testing, cleaning, and multiplication processes for improved roots, tubers, and bananas, facilitating their rapid dissemination throughout East Africa. In a computer room at the KEPHIS RTB tissue culture lab, we meet Rosemary Gatimu, Research Assistant for the International

In late 2023, Breeding Resources Initiative tasked a fast-track team of biometricians with the development of a Breeding Analytics Pipeline to support CGIAR crop breeding activities, with the endorsement of Genetic Innovation leadership. The tool is now available to internal users. The Breeding Analytics (BA) Pipeline as a cutting-edge tool designed to guide decision-making processes in global crop breeding. It

Modern agricultural practices have enabled food production to meet — and even outpace — demands from growing populations. But the rapid growth in production has often come at the cost of significant land and water degradation, biodiversity losses and increased greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). This month’s Earth Day underscores our need to ensure agriculture can roll out environmental solutions — or at least mitigate

Jhoanne Ynion, Neale Marvin Paguirigan, Bert Lenaerts, Matty Demont Staff from the International Rice Research Institute’s (IRRI) Portfolio Development Management Office (PDMO) and Technology Transfer (ITT) were the first CGIAR colleagues to experience GloMIP’s Impact Opportunities (IO) Portal through an inaugural training session held on 20 March 2024. GloMIP is a tool that can empower its users to generate evidence-based

Breeding Research and Services (BRS) leadership recently completed an intensive Total Quality Management (TQM) training program. The training complements process management work initiated by the Initiative and contributes to providing unparalleled services to crop breeders across CGIAR.   Fortifying quality management foundations TQM, short for Total Quality Management, is a comprehensive management strategy aimed at continually enhancing the quality of products

Jason Donovan, Agnes Gitonga, Dean Muungani, Peter Coaldrake, Mercy Mbugua, Matty Demont, Sika Gbegbelegbe, Pieter Rutsaert, Diego Naziri Since the start of the CGIAR Initiative on Market Intelligence in 2022, some 250 target product profiles (TPPs) have been developed (www.glomip.cgiar.org). A TPP is a blueprint of the traits, including their measurements and thresholds, that a new seed product must contain

(photo: Mike Licht NotionsCapital.com) Diego Naziri, Reuben Saali, Agnes Gitonga The identification and systematic application of criteria for identifying seed product market segments (SPMSs) across all crops included in the CGIAR crop breeding portfolio (see Market Intelligence Brief #1) is a game changer for supporting new discussions on the prioritization of the breeding pipelines, assessing their impact opportunities, and, ultimately,

Neale Paguirigan, Matty Demont, Bert Lenaerts, James Montecillo, Ewan Richardson, Laura Knogler, Peter Coaldrake, Michael Quinn, Marianne Bänziger The CGIAR Initiative on Market Intelligence and Initiative on Accelerated Breeding have joined forces by linking their respective online platforms, the Global Market Intelligence Platform (GloMIP) and the Breeding Portal, to strengthen decision-making in CGIAR crop breeding. The two platforms use the