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Cultivating a culture of change – Tools and tips for ‘SHARP’ data management,...
Arllet Portugal Today, we chit-chat with Arllet Portugal (pictured) on crop research data management. Arllet’s greatest daily challenge is convincing crop breeders and other crop researchers that their...
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A new breed of Workbench – Introducing the Breeding Management System
Mark Sawkins Mark the man in the middle, and of the markers… Today, we talk to Mark Sawkins (pictured), the ‘middleware’ man in our Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP) so to speak, seeing as he is the...
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The Integrated Breeding FieldBook – An African agronomist’s perspective
For this ‘IBP story-telling season’, our next stop is very fittingly Africa, and her most populous nation, Nigeria. Travel with us! Having already heard the Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP) story on...
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Wherefore art thou Integrated Breeding Platform?
Something old, something new; Plenty borrowed, and just a bit of blue… Why did the Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP) come to be, and what’s the latest offer from the five-year-old Platform? The...
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Sororal science and a mentor on a mission – why cassava and capacity building...
Two peas in a pod, hand in hand, Elizabeth Parkes “In the past, the assumption was always that ‘Africa can’t do this.’ Now, people see that when given a chance to get round circumstances – as GCP has...
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Inspiring change: GCP celebrates sisters in science on International Women’s Day
“Women can do advanced agricultural science, and do it well!” Elizabeth Parkes, cassava researcher, Ghana Being a woman scientist in today’s world (or at any time in history!) is no mean feat, science...
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Tanzanian groundnut researchers breaking new ground…and carrying their own...
Omari Mponda After getting a good grounding on the realities of groundnut research from Vincent, our next stop is East Africa, Tanzania, where we meet Omari Mponda (pictured). Omari is a Principal...
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Mission possible for ‘Generation Open’: open access and open attitudes for...
By Eloise Phipps Imagine the scene: it is the dead of night, and you are engaged on a dangerous mission. You are tense, alert for any noise. You must complete your task without being seen, or risk the...
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Peasant lad to leading professor: Paul and his passion for pods
Beyond chickpeas to embrace beans, chickpeas, groundnuts and pigeonpeas As a scientist who comes from the dessicated drylands of the unforgiving Kerio Valley, where severe drought can mean loss of life...
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James, the agile juggler on the maize research-to-development continuum
James Gethi and one of the crops closest to his heart – maize. He also has a soft spot for hardy crop varieties that survive harsh and unforgiving drylands, such as Machakos, Kenya, where this June...
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