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From September 29 to October 17, Digital Solutions delivered a comprehensive Train-the-Trainers program on the Enterprise Breeding System, equipping data managers across CGIAR centers with advanced EBS skills. Through hands-on activities and expert virtual coaching, participants gained the capability to train end-users and drive data-driven, digitally enabled breeding improvements in their programs.

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3 December, 2025

Kenya Strengthens Rice Research Capacity Through Training on Early Generation Seed Production and Digital Breeding Tools

IRRI’s participation in KALRO’s capacity-building program strengthened Kenya’s national rice research system by advancing technical and digital competencies. Through hands-on training in EBS, Bioflow, and modern breeding practices, the initiative empowered scientists, enhanced institutional collaboration, and reinforced the commitment to accelerating digitally enabled, efficient, and high-impact rice research across the country.

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CIP Potato and Sweet Potato Breeding Joins EBS: A Milestone in CGIAR’s Digital Transformation

The International Potato Center (CIP) is taking a major step in CGIAR’s digital transformation by integrating its potato and sweet potato breeding data into the Enterprise Breeding System (EBS). As the first Roots, Tubers, and Bananas (RTB) crops fully managed within EBS, this milestone advances networked, data-driven breeding under CGIAR’s Breeding for Tomorrow vision. Through this integration, CIP enhances efficiency, transparency, and data stewardship, paving the way for faster development of climate-resilient, farmer- and consumer-preferred varieties while reinforcing CGIAR’s unified, secure, and sustainable breeding data ecosystem.

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3 November, 2025

Transforming breeding programs through digital solutions

By: Stephanie Manrilla
24 July, 2025

How can conventional crop breeding approaches be transformed to efficiently address the pressing challenges of malnutrition, food insecurity, and climate change?

Part of the solution lies in leveraging digital technologies to accelerate crop breeding processes and making sure these platforms and services are accessible to breeders. This is exactly what the CGIAR Breeding for Tomorrow (B4T) teams showcased at the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Digital Tech & Innovation Marketplace exhibit on 25-26 June 2025 at the ADB Headquarters, Philippines.

Featuring the following breeding resources, the 2-day exhibit provided an avenue to promote digital solutions that aim to future-proof their crop breeding programs:

    1. Enterprise Breeding System (EBS): a next-generation, cloud-native, and highly-interoperable breeding data management platform used to accelerate 20 crop breeding programs to date.

    2. Biometrical Genetics Workflow (BioFlow): the CGIAR-developed open-source platform for advanced breeding analytics.

    3. Global Shared Services: a resource hub for high-quality and comprehensive laboratory services and trialling and nursery support

    4. Cloud Computing Resources: a robust and reliable cloud service and infrastructure support for digital platforms

    5. Lastly, an AI-enabled tool, currently in development, envisioned to help farmers make real-time agronomic decisions.

The exhibit is part of the larger Asia Pacific Digital Transformation Forum, which gathered organizations leading the digital transformation across development sectors.

The CGIAR B4T was represented by team leads from Digital Solutions, a unit of Breeding Resources—one of the five interconnected Areas of Work of the CGIAR Science Program: Breeding for Tomorrow.

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