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Great communiction in science is both vital and rare
We are proud to work with / 's - CAST Communication Award winner!
🎇Congrats - sure to inspire other scientists across CGIAR breeding networks
cast-science.org/alison-bentley
#2023BCCA
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Silence! (with an ironic exclamation mark)
Ban on all synthetic noise in Ghana allows for introspection as people "focus on their indigenous notions of sound, silence, noise, and even death.”
Interesting paper/video: “Inappropriate Technology: Evidence from Global Agriculture.”
Global R&D is heavily concentrated in wealthy countries. Does this perpetuate inequality by leading to technologies ill-suited to other settings?
This #EarthDay underscores our need to ensure agriculture supports environmental solutions — or at least mitigates the negative impacts of producing food and feed for the 🌍
#CropBreeding is key to this vision.
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Breeders & data specialists: to help you manage your breeding data, EBS (Enterprise Breeding System) courses are now available for & NARES partners! Via Breeding Resources Initiative,
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Visit: tinyurl.com/EBSlms
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Shared breeding services enable to generate cost-efficient and high-quality data - consistent across the CGIAR/NARES breeding network
Are you ready for the newest lab services?
🔬Genotyping expansion
⚕️Nutritional analysis
🖥️New service portal
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Africa must improve yeilds & farming practices. Dutch examples may be useful as Africa aims to reduce yield gaps & overcome mismatch between smallholder needs & which seeds big seed companies develop
#GeneticInnovation is big part of the solution
Delivering new crop varieties to small-scale farmers:
Accelerated Breeding, Breeding Resources & Seed Equal describe how Initiatives work together to improve breeding approaches, develop new varieties, and get them to users
At #CIMMYTScienceandInnovation week
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When we hire from the outside, we pay more to get less.
Despite costing more, external hires perform worse and quit more. Promoting from within fuels individual growth and collective success.
If there are never strong internal candidates, we've failed at leadership development.
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Great debate on Green Revolution & ‘mass breeding’: “practices need to continue but must be alongside improvements in agronomic practices… (esp.) for Africa’s 2.5B people by 2025.”
- Sr Director, Plant Breeding John Derera #CIMMYTScienceandInnovation week at HQ
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Hope you're having a reflective #InternationalWomensDay. For those wondering how crop breeding is connected to the welfare of women in low- and middle- income countries, check out this new infographic from #Genderinag
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💬 Do you work in communications? are hiring a Global Communications Lead for #WaterSystems!
📅 Application deadline is March 13, 2023.
Apply today 👉 on.cgiar.org/3mt32AM
#SciComm #jobalert #OneCGIAR
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Why do women farmers less frequently than men adopt modern technologies, improved crop varieties and new livestock breeds ? 's shares some lessons.
👉 bit.ly/3KcEt4X #GenderinAg #IWD2023
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What's the word on women in science? asked an array women working across the crop breeding domain to choose one word that would symbolize #womeninscience.
Their answers and experiences are captured here: bit.ly/40Uh1PL #GenderinAg
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This week we mark #WomeninScienceDay and we asked 16 prominent women breeders to choose one word to symbolize “women in science." Read their words and stories:
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Regional #OneCGIAR breeding hubs. Expanding lab services. A transformational data platform + more
2022 saw some major steps toward crop breeding impacts from Breeding Resources Initiative, EiB & partners
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s new president, took office and promised to halt deforestation and to restore degraded land but plans to regenerate deforested areas remain unclear, reports .
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⏳Africa is in a race against time on #foodsecurity and the stakes could not be higher, says
Read why unleashing Africa’s agricultural potential is key to food security
Read more 👉 on.cgiar.org/3ueHKrq
#OneCGIAR
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📢NEWS! Breeding Resources Initiative to support as a regional service coordinator for multiple crops, starting with nutritional analysis services, then other competitive services like genotyping and capacity building.
Big step toward #OneCGIAR vision!
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Breeding Resources Initiative field visit Mbe station in Côte d’Ivoire:
✅Crops to End Hunger machinery speeding up processes and reducing error
✅Adoption of EBS
✅Field & lab processes improving quickly
✅All an example for #onecgiar
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African farmers need better rice varieties — fast. Breeding Resources Initiative kicks off week w/ in Côte d’Ivoire to help scientists better implement ’s OneRice strategy & drive lab, trialing, data & other process teams.
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How is Breeding Resources Initiative working with breeding partners? What's the vision? What's been achieved? What's YOUR feedback?
🌐Join the team for their first Townhall
📅 Nov. 10: 13:00-13:50 GMT
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. blocked my account again for trying to use Amazon Mexico. Third time calling - on hold forever. If you're ALWAYS "currently experiencing a higher volume of calls" then that's your REGULAR volume of calls!
Hire some operators, you're a corporation not charity or govt
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The #BreedingResourcesInitiative team is ready to boost support for crop breeding programs to reach operational excellence. Great meetings this week to strategize, plan and bond. Looking forward to working with partners across the / NARES networks!
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New Op-Ed: African leaders should invest in scaling up proven solutions to tackle the current food crisis and build long term resilience.
Read more from 's and
@AGRAAlliance's ahead of #AGRF2022
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"The envelope of provocation has widened. Criticism is barely tolerated & govt intimidation of civil society is manifesting across various scales & circumstances"
Civil society in the Mekong: What can we learn from environmental struggles? shar.es/afscCI via
Breeding has a tremendous opportunity to benefit women, or at least “do no harm.” This is especially true for #RuralWomen in developing countries.
| #SDG5
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🔔Opportunity for Mekong journalists! 🔔
Join a 3-day workshop and receive $US1,200 grants to produce in-depth stories that will call attention to Mekong water governance from a gender and social inclusion perspective. Deadline: 14 Aug 2022
Find out more: bit.ly/3PUgPdF
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"I can’t think of a nobler mission than working on food security. I hope that more young scientists — especially women — will focus their talents on crop breeding for the future."
- Hugo Campo from / steering committee
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Food production research catalyzed by the Green Revolution is saving billions. But today’s challenges, especially w/ the climate crisis, demand new approaches.
#OneCGIAR & partners are shifting strategy & practice to address this 👉on.cgiar.org/3mETjUX
#OurInitiatives
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New via : Crop breeders's new varieties must appeal to men looking to increase earnings & women with family priorities e.g. nutrition & taste
#MarketIntelligence can help drive development of varieties primed for adoption
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The Ukraine-Russia war continues to de-stabilize global wheat. In our new paper we propose essential actions to mitigate near-term food security crisis, stabilize wheat supply & transition towards greater agri-food system resilience nature.com/articles/s4301
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How to feed the planet? Part of the answer is to "reform and increase funding for —the research network that brought near miraculous increase in farm productivity known as Green Revolution —to focus more on increasing yields & reducing emissions"
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