In pursuit of a better world: crop improvement and the CGIAR

Quantifying farmers' preferences for cropping systems intensification: A choice experiment approach applied in coastal Bangladesh's risk prone farming systems

(2021) Sreejith Aravindakshan et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Modeling impacts of faster productivity growth to inform the CGIAR initiative on Crops to End Hunger

(2021) Keith Wiebe et al.   PLoS One

Tackling G × E × M interactions to close on-farm yield-gaps: creating novel pathways for crop improvement by predicting contributions of genetics and management to crop productivity

(2021) Mark Cooper et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

Modelling rankings in R: the PlackettLuce package

(2020) Heather L. Turner et al.   COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS

Designing crops for adaptation to the drought and high temperature risks anticipated in future climates

(2020) G.L. Hammer et al.   CROP SCIENCE

CGIAR modeling approaches for resource constrained scenarios: IV Models for analyzing socio‐economic factors to improve policy recommendations

(2020) Gideon Kruseman et al.   CROP SCIENCE

A review of varietal change in roots, tubers and bananas: consumer preferences and other drivers of adoption and implications for breeding

(2020) Graham Thiele et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Mobilizing Crop Biodiversity

(2020) Susan McCouch et al.   Molecular Plant

Fertilizer profitability for smallholder maize farmers in Tanzania: A spatially-explicit ex ante analysis

(2020) Sebastian Palmas et al.   PLoS One

Evolutionary Plant Breeding as a Response to the Complexity of Climate Change

(2020) Salvatore Ceccarelli et al.   iScience

Enhancing the rate of genetic gain in public-sector plant breeding programs: lessons from the breeder’s equation

(2019) Joshua N. Cobb et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

Crop variety management for climate adaptation supported by citizen science

(2019) Jacob van Etten et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A review of breeding objectives, genomic resources, and marker-assisted methods in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

(2019) Teshale Assefa et al.   MOLECULAR BREEDING

Influence of experimental design on decentralized, on-farm evaluation of populations: a simulation study

(2019) Gaëlle van Frank et al.   EUPHYTICA

Combining Crop Growth Modeling and Statistical Genetic Modeling to Evaluate Phenotyping Strategies

(2019) Daniela Bustos-Korts et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Science-based intensive agriculture: Sustainability, food security, and the role of technology

(2019) Jim Gaffney et al.   Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment

Scenario Development and Foresight Analysis: Exploring Options to Inform Choices

(2018) Keith Wiebe et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

The Physiological Basis of Drought Tolerance in Crop Plants: A Scenario-Dependent Probabilistic Approach

(2018) François Tardieu et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Issues for cropping and agricultural science in the next 20 years

(2018) R.A. Fischer et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Cognitive Performance in Indian School-Going Adolescents Is Positively Affected by Consumption of Iron-Biofortified Pearl Millet: A 6-Month Randomized Controlled Efficacy Trial

(2018) Samuel P Scott et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Ecology and genomics of an important crop wild relative as a prelude to agricultural innovation

(2018) Eric J.B. von Wettberg et al.   Nature Communications

Towards resilience through systems-based plant breeding. A review

(2018) Edith T. Lammerts van Bueren et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Options for keeping the food system within environmental limits

(2018) Marco Springmann et al.   NATURE

WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas

(2017) Stephen E. Fick et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Portfolio optimization for seed selection in diverse weather scenarios

(2017) Oskar Marko et al.   PLoS One

Disembedding grain: Golden Rice, the Green Revolution, and heirloom seeds in the Philippines

(2016) Glenn Davis Stone et al.   AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES

FIRST EXPERIENCES WITH A NOVEL FARMER CITIZEN SCIENCE APPROACH: CROWDSOURCING PARTICIPATORY VARIETY SELECTION THROUGH ON-FARM TRIADIC COMPARISONS OF TECHNOLOGIES (TRICOT)

(2016) JACOB VAN ETTEN et al.   EXPERIMENTAL AGRICULTURE

From Observation to Information: Data-Driven Understanding of on Farm Yield Variation

(2016) Daniel Jiménez et al.   PLoS One

Envirotyping for deciphering environmental impacts on crop plants

(2016) Yunbi Xu   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

Limited-Transpiration Trait May Increase Maize Drought Tolerance in the US Corn Belt

(2015) Carlos D. Messina et al.   AGRONOMY JOURNAL

LeasyScan: a novel concept combining 3D imaging and lysimetry for high-throughput phenotyping of traits controlling plant water budget

(2015) Vincent Vadez et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Modelling the effect of plant water use traits on yield and stay-green expression in sorghum

(2014) Jana Kholov� et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Sustainable intensification and the African smallholder farmer

(2014) B. Vanlauwe et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Predicting the future of plant breeding: complementing empirical evaluation with genetic prediction

(2014) Mark Cooper et al.   Crop & Pasture Science

Characterizing drought stress and trait influence on maize yield under current and future conditions

(2013) Matthew T. Harrison et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Spatial analysis to support geographic targeting of genotypes to environments

(2013) Glenn Hyman et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

A method for evaluating climate change adaptation strategies for small-scale farmers using survey, experimental and modeled data

(2012) L. Claessens et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Green Revolution: Impacts, limits, and the path ahead

(2012) P. L. Pingali   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Crop management based on field observations: Case studies in sugarcane and coffee

(2011) James Cock et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Exploring and Exploiting Genetic Variation from Unadapted Sorghum Germplasm in a Breeding Program

(2011) D. R. Jordan et al.   CROP SCIENCE

High-yield irrigated maize in the Western U.S. Corn Belt: I. On-farm yield, yield potential, and impact of agronomic practices

(2010) Patricio Grassini et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Yield–trait performance landscapes: from theory to application in breeding maize for drought tolerance

(2010) Carlos D. Messina et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

A methodological approach to assess and compare the sustainability level of agricultural plant production systems

(2009) Theodoros Dantsis et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Closing the cassava yield gap: An analysis from smallholder farms in East Africa

(2009) A.M. Fermont et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Agricultural intensification in the Sahel – The ladder approach

(2008) Jens B. Aune et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

Bellagio 1969: The green revolution

(2008) Lowell S. Hardin   NATURE