Science for better crops in the tropics
While farmers in the developing world face agricultural challenges largely similar to their counterparts in industrialised countries, access to resources for mitigation makes all the differerence. For the majority of crop farmers in the developing world, the ravages of drought, low soil fertility, crop pests and diseases are aggravated by their limited access to improved crops. Moreover, irrigation, fertilisers and pesticides are often beyond their reach.
Access to improved plants is a critical tipping point between healthy and hungry families.
By using advances in molecular biology and harnessing the rich global stocks of crop genetic resources, the Generation Challenge Programme (GCP) of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) aims to bridge this gap. Through its five Subprogrammes, GCP creates and provides a new generation of plants that meet farmer needs, as reflected in our vision, mission and objectives in our Strategy Framework.
Who We Are:
GCP is an international, multisectoral and interdisciplinary collaboration in the plant sciences. More
GCP's focus in Phase II:
2009 Annual Report now available
The 2009 Annual Report is now available online, with the print version to follow shortly. To view the online version, plus a wide range of GCP...(more)
IBP Buzz
We are delighted to announce the launch of a brand new in-house newsletter for the Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP) project.
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