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Understanding costs for better Breeding Programs Since 2018, Accelerated Breeding Initiative (ABI), under CGIAR’s Genetic Innovation, has been assisting National Agricultural Research and Extension Systems (NARES) breeding programs in costing out their pipelines operations. The effort enables the breeding programs to better understand their costs, optimize resource allocation, and accurately estimate expenses for key activities such as trialing or on-farm

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

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

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

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