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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 mission, vision and objectives in our Strategy Framework.
GCP focuses on selected crops and trait-crop combinations.
The GCP Mission:
To use plant genetic diversity, advanced genomic science and comparative biology to develop tools and technologies that help plant breeders in the developing world produce better crop varieties for resource-poor farmers.
The GCP Vision:
A future where plant breeders have the tools to breed crops in marginal environments with greater efficiency and accuracy for the benefit of the resource-poor farmers and their families.
GCP Objectives:
In line with its mission, by 2013 Generation is expected to have contributed to the following objectives:
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Provide access to and promote the use of genetic diversity in plant improvement programmes.
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Develop a public platform of genetic and genomic resources and tools, and support a global community that can use them.
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Generate and apply knowledge across crops, and demonstrate the potential of comparative genomics to impact plant improvement programmes.
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Use genetic diversity and advanced science to develop products for plant breeding programmes to improve the livelihoods of resource-poor farmers in marginal, drought-prone environments.
Who We Are:
GCP is a multinational, multisectoral and multidisciplinary 'true' collaboration in the plant sciences. More
Subprogrammes
Crop Genetic Diversity
Genomics towards gene discovery
Trait Capture for Crop Improvement
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Recent Subprogramme 3 news:
GCP seeks leader for Subprogramme 3 (Deadline for applications: 9th January 2009)
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Bioinformatics and Crop Information Systems
Capacity Building and Enabling Delivery
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GCP News & Events
GCP announces winners of 3rd round Competitve call
Following on from the recent 3rd call for proposals for competitive research, GCP is now pleased to confirm the following as the nine winnin...
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GCP seeks leader for Subprogramme 3
The Generation Challenge Programme (GCP) is seeking a highly innovative and self-motivated candidate to provide intellectual leadership fo...
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National prize awarded to GSS Bolivian collaborator working on potato
GCP GSS collaborator Jorge Antonio Rojas Beltrán, based at the not-for-profit organisation Fundación PROINPA, was recently aw...
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Winners of the GCP-supported WACCI PhD programme announced
GCP is pleased to announce the winning candidates of the new PhD scholarship programme implemented by the West African Centre for Crop Improvement (W...
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2008 GCP Reviews & evaluations: EC and EPMR reports now online
The report of the 2008 European Community (EC) review of the Generation Challenge Programme, as well as the First External Programme and Ma...
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Next ARM 2009: 20–26 September 2009; Venue TBD
GCP is pleased to confirm that its next Annual Research Meeting will be held from 20th-26th September 2009. The venue for the event is yet to be decided, an...
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GCP Medium-Term Plan 2009-2011 now available online
GCP's Medium-Term Plan 2009-2011 is now available online, accessible via our Recent Communications page.
Should you be interested...
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Other Announcements
Proposal for a revitalised CGIAR system approved
The recent 2008 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), held in Maputo, Mozambique, fr...
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Workshop on Group Faciltation Skills for Participatory Decision-Making
The Institutional Learning and Change (ILAC) Initiative, in collaboration with ICRAF in Nairobi, Kenya, are pleased to announce their fo...
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Tropical Crop Biotechnology Conference
From 22-25 July 2009 crop scientists will come together for the second Tropical Crop Biotechnology Conference, to be held in Kruger National Pa...
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IFPRI model confirms agricultural R&D key to preventing food crises
Doubling agricultural research and development (R&D) in developing countries over the next five years could lift more than 250 million pe...
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'Biotechnology, biosafety and the CGIAR: Promoting best practice in science and policy’ workshop now available
A draft report of a workshop on 'Biotechnology, biosafety and the CGIAR: Promoting best practice in science and policy’, organised by...
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