Breeders refocus products to serve multistakeholder needs
CGIAR INITIATIVES Market Intelligence Primary Impact Area Nutrition, health & food security Related Impact Areas
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CGIAR’s digital and breeding entities team up for smarter crop innovation
By Ram Dhulipala, Interim Director of CGIAR’s Digital Transformation Accelerator, and Peter Coaldrake, Interim Director of Breeding for Tomorrow CGIAR’s 2025–2030 Research Portfolio is designed to strengthen connections between science, partners, technology, and the people who rely on them. Within the Portfolio, Science Programs and Accelerators work hand in hand. An example of this integrated approach is the collaboration between
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A new direction for CGIAR crop breeding to invest where it counts
Message from Breeding for Tomorrow (B4T) Interim Director Peter Coaldrake to CGIAR Breeders, National Partners, and Funders. CGIAR has a track record of 50 years of success in the field of crop innovation, credited with spurring the Green Revolution and saving a billion lives, primarily in Asia where many people were on the brink of starvation. Today, as we aim
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Why CGIAR crop breeding is shifting focus to breakthrough products
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.
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Need training on breeding tools and services? Start here.
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
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Expanding access to quality seeds for women and youth in Uganda and beyond
CGIAR INITIATIVES Seed Equal Primary Impact Area Nutrition, health & food security Related Impact Areas
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ICRISAT to deliver world-class services as CGIAR's Breeding Resources South Asia Hub
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
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How the Enterprise Breeding System advances IITA legume breeding
Primary Impact Area Climate adaptation & mitigation Related Impact Areas Collective Global Targets End hunger for all and enable