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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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California’s ‘Constant Gardener’, cowpea crusader and catapult constructor
Jeff Ehlers Our guest today is Jeff Ehlers (pictured), Programme Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Jeff’s an old friend of GCP, most familiar to the GCP community in his immediate...
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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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Super Sam: Kenya’s nurturing geneticist, and the fruits of his labour
Samuel Gudu “Having funding to support PhD students and provide them with the resources they need to complete their research is very fulfilling and will go a long way to enhance the long-term success...
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Lively Leon: a never-grow-old researcher, and his biological rebirths
Leon Kochian “By being involved with GCP, I’ve had more opportunities to travel to the developing world and witness the problems that local farmers in these countries are facing, as well as to meet...
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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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Travelling from Timbuktu to learn from the world: Niaba Témé’s travels and...
In ancient Europe, Timbuktu, in Northern Mali, gained fame as a fabled city of knowledge and learning at a far end of the world – snuggled in the Sahara Desert, and almost impossible to get to. And so,...
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Peasant lad to leading professor: Paul and his passion for pods
Beyond chickpeas to embrace beans, chickpeas, groundnuts and pigeonpeas As a scientist who comes from the dessicated drylands of the unforgiving Kerio Valley, where severe drought can mean loss of life...
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Jura’s ‘jurassic’ journeys of discovery to and from sorghum’s ‘seven seas sede’
Welcome to Brazil! Journey by road six hours northwest from Rio de Janeiro and you’ll arrive to Sete Lagoas, a city whose name means ‘Seven Lagoons’ in Portuguese. Although cloistered in farmlands,...
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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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