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Strategic collaboration to scale innovation and deliver harmonized, high-quality support across CGIAR partners’ breeding networks in South Asia 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 to accelerate crop improvement and agricultural innovation.

Este programa de capacitaciones surgió durante el segundo trimestre de 2024 gracias a la articulación entre la Universidad Católica y el equipo de la plataforma Agua de Honduras. El ingeniero Nery López, actualmente docente universitario, había conocido la plataforma algunos años atrás y, al integrarse al ámbito académico, identificó el valor que esta herramienta tiene para aportar tanto a la

Launched in 2021 and funded by the European Union through the DeSIRA initiative, the project is led by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) and the Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM- Bari) in partnership with the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT. It brings together farmers, researchers, schools, chefs, community leaders, artists and public institutions to

CGIAR, in partnership with the United Arab Emirates’ AI71, has initiated the development of an AI agricultural advisory platform based  on a large language model (LLM) tailored to agriculture, aptly named AgriLLM. But this is not just another LLM. AgriLLM is an ambitious project aimed at equipping the agricultural community, including researchers, policymakers and smallholder farmers, with tailored AI

In the heart of Kenya’s Homa Bay County, farmers are redefining how they grow beans. Not just with better seeds or tools, but with forecasts in hand and climate information guiding their every move. During a two-day donor assurance field visit from June 11–12, 2025, a team from the Government of the United Kingdom and the WISER programme (led by

CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an intergovernmental organization (IGO) to the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA). This milestone grants CGIAR observer status at UNEA, enabling participation in its sessions and subsidiary bodies, including the upcoming UNEA-7 in December. This milestone formally positions CGIAR within the highest level of global environmental governance and strengthening

Seed supply planning in Bangladesh has faced several challenges over the years, including reliance on manual processes, fragmented data, and a tendency for reactive decision-making. These factors can often lead to mismatches between the availability of seeds and the actual demand from farmers, resulting in shortages of quality seeds or the distribution of varieties that may not be ideal for

Sharif Ahmed, Manik Debnath, and Humnath Bhandari Did you know that over 40 million people in coastal Bangladesh, particularly those residing in the lower Ganges Delta, face difficult farming conditions? Many of their lands suffer from soil salinity, which makes crop cultivation challenging. Farmers primarily grow rice during the rainy season and often leave their fields vacant during the