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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 vision, mission and objectives in our Strategy Framework.
Who We Are:
GCP is an international, multisectoral and interdisciplinary collaboration in the plant sciences. More
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GCP News & Events
Meetings of the minds on things that matter
As had been expected, February was an intense month at GCP, with three critical meetings running back-to-back. First was a workshop to officially la...
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GCP kicks off Wheat CI meetings in India and China
After months of preparatory discussions and virtual interactions, GCP wheat collaborators were finally brought together in February for tw...
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