A perspective from the  RTB Seed Systems Community of Practice The promise is that growing improved varieties will end hunger, ...

Women in smallholder farm households do much of the work on roots, tubers and bananas. They produce and process the ...

Scaling innovations has become a top priority in One CGIAR. This means to enable the use of innovations (including products, ...

“Pandemic” has become a household term over the past year, but uncontrolled disease outbreaks do not occur solely in humans ...

Plant breeders are generally looking for heterosis, where the offspring of a cross performs significantly better on some measure than ...

In the face of accelerated climate change, COVID-19 and growing populations, breeding at One CGIAR has a chance to lead the way towards food ...

Agricultural innovation arises through the dynamic interactions of the actors who grow, process, distribute and consume farm products. An innovation ...

Many readers may never have heard of cocoyam. That’s hardly surprising as this is one of the most neglected crops ...

Innovations in seed systems can have a powerful impact on crop production, particularly in combating pests and diseases that take ...

Making silage from sweetpotato vines can be a valuable source of feed for improved animal performance, as well as an ...

Understanding farmers’ preferences and priorities when it comes to selecting seed is critical to ensuring that technologies for improved planting ...

When a community-led disease management strategy in Ethiopia failed to stave off highly destructive potato late blight, investigations revealed it ...