14 October 2022
Improving the acceptability of new crop varieties using farmer-centered methodologies to estimate performance and genetic gain
Improving the acceptability of new crop varieties using farmer-centered methodologies to estimate performance and genetic gain.
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12 October 2022
Great farmer expectations for the tricot approach in Tanzania’s Northern Zone
PhD student Mabel Nabateregga explains how farmers, particularly women, can benefit from citizen science trials.
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18 August 2022
Smallholder farmers’ traditional knowledge drives genomics-assisted breeding for local adaptation
As the world faces interconnected environmental, nutritional and climatic crises, there is the need to find new paths ensuring sustainable farming systems. This is how we discovered that decentralized, participatory breeding methods can achieve higher genetic gains in challenging cropping systems.
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18 August 2022
Tricot: A better method for on-farm crop testing
The NextGen Cassava Breeding project, the IITA Cassava Breeding Unit and Sahel Consulting organized a workshop with the Nigerian variety release committee to propose tricot as an alternative and better way for on-farm testing with farmers and processors.
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