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Hitting the nail on the head: A nuts-and-bolts approach to local capacity...

Breathing life into support services By addressing the needs at the heart of quality agricultural research, right there on the station, GCP was the first to cotton on to a crucial missing link between...

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Hitting the nail on the head: A nuts-and-bolts approach to local capacity...

Breathing life into support services By addressing the needs at the heart of quality agricultural research, right there on the station, GCP was the first to cotton on to a crucial missing link between...

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Bird’s eye view from the Board

The GCP community, its labours and joys If tools and resources are not put to use, then we labour in vain...GCP contributes to food security by providing breeders with integrated tools, techniques and...

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A 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...

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A bout with drought and disease: Beans that beat the heat and odds in Zimbabwe

Drought stalks, some die Despite the widespread cultivation of beans in Africa, yields are low, stagnating at between 20 and 30 percent of their potential. Drought brought about by climate change is...

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Cassava’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...

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Food for thought on video: a ‘rice-bowl of research’ spiced with flavours...

  Steaming rice bowl What’s the latest from ‘GCP TV’? Plenty! With a world-favourite – rice – featuring high and hot on the menu. Now serving our latest news, to tease your taste-buds with a...

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Cassava on the catwalk: Ghanaian ‘make-over’ for crop-science underdog

‘Made (up) in Ghana’ In the world of crop research as in the fashion industry, there are super-models, mere models, spectators and rank outsiders. Make no bones about it, trusty old cassava (Manihot...

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Sororal 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...

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Inspiring 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...

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California’s ‘Constant Gardener’, cowpea crusader and catapult constructor

  Jeff Ehlers Our guest today is Jeff Ehlers (pictured), Programme Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Jeff’s an old friend of GCP, most familiar to the GCP community in his immediate...

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A grounding in the reality of groundnut research in Africa, and why blood is...

Vincent Vadez Today, we travel to yet another sun-kissed spot, leaving California behind but keeping it legumes. We land in Africa for some ground truths on groundnuts with Vincent Vadez (pictured),...

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Cowpeas – uncowed and unbowed: believing that what could be can be, in breeding

  Phil Roberts Like its legume relatives, cowpeas belong to a cluster of crops that are still referred to in some spheres of the crop-breeding world as ‘orphan crops’. This, because they have largely...

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Tanzanian 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...

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‘Milking’ cowpeas in Mozambique for protein and profit… plus a pox upon pests!

Rogério Chiulele   Today, we travel the Milky Way on a voyage to Mozambique. Our man along the Milky Way is Rogério Marcos Chiulele (pictured), a lecturer at Mozambique’s Universidade Eduardo...

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The curious case of cassava’s quirks, narrated in Nigeria

Triumphs and tragedies, pitfalls and potential of the ‘camel crop’ We travel through space and time, with a pair of researchers who have a pronounced passion for a plant brought to Africa by seafaring...

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Science enlists nature and collaboration to ‘neutralise’ acidic soils

  DNA spiral Crop researchers including plant breeders across five continents are collaborating on several GCP projects to develop local varieties of sorghum, maize and rice, which can withstand...

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Sugarcane, sorghum, students and maize: Claudia’s colourful and contrasting...

Read how this cocktail blends in a comparative genomics crucible, where both family genes and crop genes come into play in Brazil. Nothing whatsoever to do with the World Cup. It’s all about a...

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Super Sam: Kenya’s nurturing geneticist, and the fruits of his labour

  Samuel Gudu “Having funding to support PhD students and provide them with the resources they need to complete their research is very fulfilling and will go a long way to enhance the long-term success...

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Lively Leon: a never-grow-old researcher, and his biological rebirths

Leon Kochian “By being involved with GCP, I’ve had more opportunities to travel to the developing world and witness the problems that local farmers in these countries are facing, as well as to meet...

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