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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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On common ground – A longstanding association
SDC and GCP Today, we catch up with SDC’s Carmen Thönnissen (pictured). She walks us through the whys of Switzerland’s continued funding to GCP that has spanned nearly the Programme’s entire lifetime....
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A new breed of Workbench – Introducing the Breeding Management System
Mark Sawkins Mark the man in the middle, and of the markers… Today, we talk to Mark Sawkins (pictured), the ‘middleware’ man in our Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP) so to speak, seeing as he is the...
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Wherefore art thou Integrated Breeding Platform?
Something old, something new; Plenty borrowed, and just a bit of blue… Why did the Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP) come to be, and what’s the latest offer from the five-year-old Platform? The...
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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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Peasant lad to leading professor: Paul and his passion for pods
Beyond chickpeas to embrace beans, chickpeas, groundnuts and pigeonpeas As a scientist who comes from the dessicated drylands of the unforgiving Kerio Valley, where severe drought can mean loss of life...
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James, the agile juggler on the maize research-to-development continuum
James Gethi and one of the crops closest to his heart – maize. He also has a soft spot for hardy crop varieties that survive harsh and unforgiving drylands, such as Machakos, Kenya, where this June...
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