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Remarks by Commissioner Stella Kyriakides at the Agrifish Council - Plant and Forest Reproductive Material

The CGIAR biofortification program, HarvestPlus, was founded with the aim of improving the quality of diets through micronutrient-dense varieties of staple food crops. Implemented in four phases –...

Orphan crops, also known as minor crops, smart foods, and superfoods, have attracted great attention recently because of their unique ability to grow in resource-poor...

Nutrient-enriched crops are grown to have an enhanced nutritional value. Unlike other forms of fortification, in which vitamins and minerals are added to foods manually and post-harvest...

In this article, I examine whether the contemporary regional intellectual property (IP) agreements negotiated by West African countries are more suitable than multilateral agreements to advance...

Sorghum (sorghum bicolor) is widely cultivated across West Africa, in a broad range of agro-ecological conditions and contrasting production objectives of individual farmers, women and men. These...

The 5-year project 'Breeding roots, tubers and banana products for end user preferences' (RTBfoods) focused on collecting consumers' preferences on 12 food products to guide breeding...

Farmers in sub-Saharan Africa do not have much choice of quality seed of vegetable cultivars adapted to local growing conditions and consumer demand. Only a handful...

Highlights: Predicting performance of hybrids prior to field evaluation is a challenging problem. We developed machine learning models to estimate performance of untested hybrids. The...

Two newly released JRC reports describe case studies of how crops developed through gene editing could become celiac-safe or resistant to disease and allow...