October 09, 2025 | Crop Science | Introduction: Traditional plant breeding often prioritizes explanatory models to understand biological mechanisms, which can limit the generalizability of selection
July 06, 2023 | The Plant Genome | Introduction: Researchers from CIMMYT (Mexico) and Mamoré Research and Innovation (UK) address a critical gap in wheat breeding research: the limited consideration
March, 2024 | Frontiers in Plant Science | Introduction: Developing climate-smart agriculture requires cost-effective methods to characterize crop growing conditions. A research team from the America
February, 2025 | Agricultural Systems | Introduction: Accurate and timely yield prediction is critical for breeding trials, as it enables early elimination of poor-performing varieties and accelerate
December 1, 2025 | Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) | Speaking at the opening of the 179th Session of the FAO Council, FAO Director-General outlined 4 pathways to accelerate agrifood system tra
December 17, 2025 | Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) | FAO announced that the Global Environment Facility (GEF) approved a US$58.8 million package of 8 FAO-led projects spanning Bangladesh, DR
December 19, 2025 | The Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centres (CGIAR) | CGIAR reported progress in embedding on-farm verification trials (OFVT) as a standard final step in breeding
December 17, 2025 | European Commission | The European Commission proposed targeted updates to the EU organic framework under Regulation (EU) 2018/848 to strengthen the sector’s contribution to enviro
December 18, 2025 | International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) | IRRI and the Vietnam Rice Research and Development Institute (VIETRISA) jointly launched ViRiCert, a certification scheme recognizing
December 18, 2025 | Yunlin County Government (In Chinese) | Yunlin County Government announced the adoption of probiotic technology to reduce GHG emissions from paddy rice cultivation as part of its l
December 12, 2025 | Agriculture and Food Agency, Ministry of Agriculture, Taiwan (In Chinese) | Taiwan’s Agriculture and Food Agency (AFA) announced new efforts to promote domestic fresh fruit consump
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) | Source | Report | FAO’s 2025 flagship report provides a global assessment of how human-induced land degradation—linked to deforestation, overgrazing, and unsu