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Food for thought on video: a ‘rice-bowl of research’ spiced with flavours...
Steaming rice bowl What’s the latest from ‘GCP TV’? Plenty! With a world-favourite – rice – featuring high and hot on the menu. Now serving our latest news, to tease your taste-buds with a...
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Cassava on the catwalk: Ghanaian ‘make-over’ for crop-science underdog
‘Made (up) in Ghana’ In the world of crop research as in the fashion industry, there are super-models, mere models, spectators and rank outsiders. Make no bones about it, trusty old cassava (Manihot...
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Sororal science and a mentor on a mission – why cassava and capacity building...
Two peas in a pod, hand in hand, Elizabeth Parkes “In the past, the assumption was always that ‘Africa can’t do this.’ Now, people see that when given a chance to get round circumstances – as GCP has...
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‘Frontier’ science and Rebecca’s ‘fire’– enlisting nature to fortify crops...
Restless Rebecca Rebecca Nelson I’m a mother and a wife. The idea of so many mothers not being able to feed their families, and so many children not getting the nutrients they need to reach their...
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Made in Bangladesh: 2-in-1 salt-and-water rice ‘sandwich’ with Filipino...
Two in one, in more ways than one Armin Bhuiya Armin Bhuiya (pictured) is a dynamic and lively young geneticist and plant breeder, who has made huge strides in tracking crucial genes in Bangladeshi...
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Inspiring change: GCP celebrates sisters in science on International Women’s Day
“Women can do advanced agricultural science, and do it well!” Elizabeth Parkes, cassava researcher, Ghana Being a woman scientist in today’s world (or at any time in history!) is no mean feat, science...
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Sugarcane, sorghum, students and maize: Claudia’s colourful and contrasting...
Read how this cocktail blends in a comparative genomics crucible, where both family genes and crop genes come into play in Brazil. Nothing whatsoever to do with the World Cup. It’s all about a...
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Eva’s endeavours: a professional path in plant science inspired by Norman...
“…I wanted to contribute in a similar way” – Eva Weltzien Eva Weltzien Learning about the work of Nobel laureate, Norman Borlaug, in high school inspired Eva Weltzien to become a plant breeder so she...
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Tribute to cassava: Princess, pauper, mother, orphan, queen
Things fall apart… and come together By Eloise Phipps Cassava – the tough, gutsy daughter of a poignant confluence of cultures, and the benevolent mother of millions when times get tough – is bursting...
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James, the agile juggler on the maize research-to-development continuum
James Gethi and one of the crops closest to his heart – maize. He also has a soft spot for hardy crop varieties that survive harsh and unforgiving drylands, such as Machakos, Kenya, where this June...
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