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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 and farming systems.
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:
New Supbrogramme 3 Leader
3rd Round Competitive projects announced, including three new projects under Subprogramme 3
The primary purpose of this subprogramme is to increase the efficiency, speed and scope of plant breeding. |
Bioinformatics and Crop Information Systems
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Recent Subprogramme 4 news:
New! Molecular Breeding Platform Workshop: 5 - 7 March 2009, CIRAD, Montpellier, France (Contact: Sandra Insignares)
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Capacity Building and Enabling Delivery
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GCP News & Events
The Pioneer–GCP Graduate Fellowship: Call for applications—Deadline: 30 June 2009
Following on from the previous call in November 2008, the Generation Challenge Programme (GCP), in collaboration with Pioneer Hi-Bred International, In...
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GCP Molecular Breeding Platform Developer’s Workshop
GCP is pleased to announce its forthcoming Molecular Breeding Platform Developer’s Workshop. The workshop, to take place from 25–31 Ju...
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GCP announces winners of 2nd Genotyping Support Service call for proposals
GCP is pleased to announce the winners of its 2nd Genotyping Support Service call for proposals. This call was launched in June 2008 in coordination and collaborat...
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2009 ARM venue confirmed as Bamako, Mali
Following on from the recent announcement on the forthcoming 2009 Annual Research Meeting (ARM), to be held from 20–26 September 2...
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2nd Genotyping Support Service workshop materials
More materials from the 2nd Genotyping Support Service workshop (January 2009), including presentations, participant feedback and...
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Molecular Breeding Platform workshop
From 5–7 March 2009 GCP held a workshop on molecular breeding (MB), bringing together over 70 participants from the GCP community an...
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SP2 Leader Rajeev Varshney receives Young Scientist Medal
GCP’s Subprogramme 2 Leader Rajeev Varshney, who carries out his SPL role on a half-time basis concurrent with his ICRISAT responsibilities, ha...
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Other Announcements
'US–Africa Connections' workshop, 18–23 June 2009, Nairobi, Kenya
The Science & Technology program for Agricultural Development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation aims to explore ways in which th...
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International conference on Food security and climate change in dry areas
From 12–15 October 2009 an International Conference on 'Food security and climate change in dry areas' will be held in Amman, Jo...
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Learning from the past--FAO biotechnology e-mail conference
From 20th April–17th May 2009, the FAO Biotechnology Forum will be hosting an e-mail conference with the provisional title Learning from t...
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InterDrought-III
Dates: 11–16 October 2009
Venue: Shanghai, China
Target: Scientists working on basic and applied research for soluti...
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2009 TDWG Annual Meeting: e-knowledge on biodiversity and agriculture
From 9–13 November 2009, Bioversity International and Agropolis International, in partnership with the not-for-profit group Biodiversity In...
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