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Knowledge Exchange Program concludes CIAT-Forage programs’ EBS adoption

A two-week Knowledge Exchange Program (KEP) was hosted by the Enterprise Breeding System’s (EBS) adoption team at the International Rice Research Institute Headquarters (IRRI HQ) from 13-24 January 2025.

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Bunmi Bossey

“EBS is an all-in-one tool that will help any Center to modernize their work”

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East and Southern Africa partners learn modern breeding strategies and efficient data management

IRRI’s training focused on enhancing skills in experiment planning and management using EBS, digitization of data collection, ensuring high-quality data, and effective data analysis and interpretation.

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Building a platform for breeding IT across CGIAR

The Enterprise Breeding System is set to be the only CGIAR breeding data management system. Learn how the transition will take place.

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Development underway on EBS Milestone 6 functionalities

Developers are working on over a hundred new or improved functionalities in the August 2022 to January 2023 period, following a series of global meetings that distilled user requirements into a realistic blueprint for the Enterprise Breeding System (EBS) Milestone 6 release.

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IITA and partners launch EBS-Maize Platform to modernize breeding programs

IITA, Excellence in Breeding (EiB), International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), and other partners launched the Enterprise Breeding System (EBS) for maize breeding data management on 22 April.

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A transformational breeding data management system goes online at CGIAR centers

The EBS project celebrated an important milestone as adoption started at IITA, IRRI and CIMMYT.

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EBS Town Hall: How users are involved in development and the way forward

On 26 October 2021, with the first functional version of the software bring released, over 100 EBS staff and stakeholders came together to hear from the breeders involved in development and the roadmap for future releases.