GREAT Blog
08 July 2020
The following discussion with Nigerian wheat breeder Kachalla Kyari Mala, Lake Chad Research Institute, Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria, is an excerpt from a GREAT Medium post. Read the original post in its entirety.
In Northeast Nigeria, where agriculture forms the backbone of rural... more
07 May 2020
This post originally appeared as an article on the GREAT Medium channel. See the original article in its entirety...
Emerging public discourses around the COVID-19 crisis characterise it as unprecedented and disruptive. How exactly does this disruption affect masculinities? World over, the... more
14 April 2020
This post originally appeared as an article on the GREAT Medium channel. See the original article in its entirety...
Who holds the camera helps determine what we see, and what the outcomes are. Overcoming ‘gender blindness’ requires society to see from different perspectives. Photo: Marie Arago... more
15 January 2020
This article originally appeared on the Excellence in Breeding Platform website (here), and cross posted on the Gender & Breeding Initiative website (here).
By Sam Storr, Excellence in Breeding Platform
A pilot study to validate tools that will help breeders to pay more attention to... more
01 November 2020
This article was originally posted on the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI) website.
By Joseph Opoku Gakpo, BGRI
In 2010, when Hale Ann Tufan was awarded a Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum award, she was a PhD student working with Lesley Boyd at the John Innes Centre in the U.K.,... more
12 March 2020
This article was originally posted on the Chicago Council of Global Affairs website, as part of their blog series, “Breaking Ground,” which explores how food systems innovation and agricultural research and development can empower farmers and feed the world. A special subsection of their series... more
30 November 2019
The original version of this article was posted on the website for the College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, Makerere University.
By Jane Anyango, Principal Communication Officer, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES), Makerere University
GREAT, in collaboration... more
30 March 2020
This article was originally posted on the Media Newswire page for the University of Georgia's College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences. See the original post here.
By Allison Floyd, University of Georgia
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut at the University of Georgia... more
02 February 2020
With the latest GREAT course that wrapped up last month, 26 agricultural scientists from across Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia joined GREAT’s growing family of gender-responsive researchers – now 189 strong.
The GREAT course on gender-responsive plant breeding that began in July 2019, ended January... more
16 October 2019
By Hale Ann Tufan, GREAT PI
Note: this blog entry originally appeared on the World Food Prize Foundation's Borlaug Blog, in conjunction with Dr. Tufan receiving the 2019 Borlaug Field Award. The original post is available here: https://www.worldfoodprize.org/index.cfm/88533/18901/... more