UK-CGIAR Centre
Dr Kosgey talks about her experience working as part of a UK-CGIAR project “Leveraging genetic innovations for accelerating breeding of Climate resilient and nutritious crops.”
Jakob Goldstraw, a research assistant at the John Innes Centre, talks about his experience working as part of a UK-CGIAR Centre project “Leveraging genetic innovations for accelerating breeding of ...
Dr. Samar Naseer, a lecturer at Allama Iqbal Open University, talks about her experience attending AfriPlantSci 2025. The event took place over the course of two weeks in November in Rabat, Morocco...
John Innes Centre’s Professor Diane Saunders talks through her work in Pakistan with the wheat enhancement project and explains why genome editing is such an important tool for scientists.
The 2025 AfriPlantSci training workshop took place over the course of two weeks in November in Rabat, Morocco. The event aims to deliver training in cutting edge molecular biology techniques and te...
In the second video in the series, Dr Anna Backhaus talks about the work of UK-CGIAR Centre's project on wheat enhancement. The project's goal is to develop locally adapted wheat cultivars that exh...
Dr Ahmed Elkot of Agricultural Research Center in Egypt discusses the work the UK-CGIAR Centre's wheat enhancement project is doing in Egypt with wheat farmers.
Project teams have been engaging ...
In March 2025, the UK-CGIAR Centre brought together scientists from leading UK science institutes as well as high-level representatives from CGIAR and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Offi...
Interview with Lilian Kirwa about the work of iShamba.
iShamba is working on the UK-CGIAR Centre’s commissioned project iSPARK (innovation in sustainability, policy, adaptation and resilience in ...
Wheat rust is a disease that can cause significant reductions in wheat yield. For Kenyan smallholder farmers, this can result in losses of up to 100% of annual harvests, which impacts both nutritio...
Dr Anne Gichangi, Senior Research Scientist at KALRO, talks about KALRO's work, the challenges facing wheat production in Kenya, and why producing wheat crops with increased levels of iron is so im...