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

Strengthening Breeding Capacity through Digital Innovation: IRRI Conducts EBS End-User Training in Tanzania

From 8–13 September 2025, IRRI conducted Enterprise Breeding System (EBS) End-User Training in Tanzania, engaging researchers from IRRI and TARI across Uyole and Dakawa stations. Led by Michael Gituma, the sessions enhanced digital capacity, strengthened collaboration, and empowered participants to apply EBS for more efficient, data-driven breeding practices.

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18 September, 2025

IRRI Hosts Train-the-Trainer Program on Enterprise Breeding System (EBS)

From September 8–12, 2025, IRRI hosted a Train-the-Trainer program on the Enterprise Breeding System (EBS) for PhilRice selected staff. The five-day course-built skills in system management and data handling, empowering participants to strengthen institutional capacity, promote EBS adoption, and advance collaborative, data-driven breeding across national programs.

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18 September, 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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