Chickpea research in India – Getting to the root of the matter to enhance...
India is the world’s largest producer and consumer of chickpea, accounting for more than a third (66 percent) of world production. The Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) and the Indian...
View ArticleChickpea research in Kenya – A boon for the fallow period
“When we first started working on this project in mid-2007, our breeding programme was very weak,” says Paul Kimurto (pictured), Lead Scientist for chickpea research in the Tropical Legumes I (TLI)...
View ArticleA chat with the Chief
Inside GCP today Do a deep dive with Jean-Marcel into GCP’s ‘engine room’. What makes the Programme work? How is it structured and governed? For a geographically dispersed Programme with...
View ArticleCassava’s gain, and surgery’s ‘pain’: Career crossings and causerie with...
Chiedozie Egesi Despite the social injustice around me, I always thought there was opportunity to improve people’s lives…GCP helped us to build an image for ourselves in Nigeria and in Africa, and this...
View ArticleCultivating 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleWherefore 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...
View ArticleSororal 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...
View ArticleInspiring 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...
View ArticleTanzanian 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...
View ArticleMission 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...
View ArticlePeasant 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...
View ArticleJames, 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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