By Peter Coaldrake, CGIAR Breeding for Tomorrow’s Interim Director and Christian Werner, Quantitative Geneticist for Accelerated Breeding For over five decades, CGIAR has made major contributions to crop improvement, developing thousands of improved varieties that have helped safeguard food security across the Global South. But the challenges ahead are rising, as is the bar for success in public plant breeding.
As global food-security challenges intensify, the urgency to strengthen capacity in breeding programs has never been greater. CGIAR Breeding Resources (BR), an area of work (AoW) of CGIAR Breeding for Tomorrow Science Program, is rising to the challenge, not only by delivering world-class breeding tools and services globally, but also by ensuring the people who use them are equipped with
CGIAR INITIATIVES Seed Equal Primary Impact Area Nutrition, health & food security Related Impact Areas
Strategic collaboration to scale innovation and deliver harmonized, high-quality support across CGIAR partners’ breeding networks in South Asia Hyderabad, India | June 2025 – Original release published on ICRISAT website The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) will serve as the South Asia hub for Breeding Resources, part of CGIAR’s Breeding for Tomorrow (B4T) Science Program, which provides shared tools and services
Primary Impact Area Climate adaptation & mitigation Related Impact Areas Collective Global Targets End hunger for all and enable
CGIAR INITIATIVES Accelerated Breeding Primary Impact Area Nutrition, health & food security Related Impact Areas
Breeding Resources Narrative Report_2022-2024 Editorial, by Sharifah Syed Alwee, CGIAR Senior Director, Breeding Resources Initiative Dear readers, At Breeding Resources, our vision is clear. We support CGIAR breeding modernization by providing high-quality services and cutting-edge tools and technologies to crop breeding programs. Without these, breeding remains a very expensive, time-consuming, and complex science. Operating in silos – where CGIAR Centers
The development of Bioflow, CGIAR’s open-source breeding analytics pipeline, funded by GIZ through Crops to End Hunger, has never slowed down since its launch last year. Following several hackathons in February 2024 and November 2024, staff from all CGIAR Centers contributed their expertise to the ongoing development of the tool, highlighting the collaborative DNA that underpins its development. Here are