GCP links basic science with applied research through a broad network of plant scientists from diverse backgrounds, working at CGIAR Centres, in academia and other research institutes, and in regional and country research programmes. In essence, our work is all about partnerships and networking, bringing together players in crop research that may otherwise never have worked together.
A typical GCP project brings together partners from CGIAR, developing countries and developed countries. These partnerships have worked well, and borne good fruit.
Below are by-year listings of some of the developing-country partners we have worked with.
- 2012–2013
- 2011
- 2010
- 2004–2009
Please see partner listings in our Annual Reports.
- Africa: Burkina Faso | Cameroon | Ethiopia | Ghana | Kenya | Malawi | Mali | Morocco | Mozambique | Niger | Nigeria | Senegal | Tanzania | Uganda | Zambia | Zimbabwe
- Asia: Bangladesh | Cambodia | Indonesia | Iran | Laos | Myanmar | Philippines | Thailand | Vietnam
Africa
- Institut de l’environnement et de recherches agricoles
- Université de Ouagadougou
- Institut pour la recherche agricole et le développement
- Addis Ababa University
- Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research
- Haramaya University
- South Agricultural Research Institute
- Crops Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
- Savanna Agricultural Research Institute of CSIR
- University of Ghana
- West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) of UG
- Egerton University (EgertonU)
- Embu Agricultural Staff Training College (EAST College)
- Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI)
- Moi University (MoiU)
- Chitedze Agricultural Research Station (CARS)
- Department of Agricultural Research & Technical Services (DARTS)
- Institut d’economie rurale du Mali (IER)
- Institut national de la recherche agronomique‡ (INRA–Morocco)
- Instituto de Investigação Agrária de Moçambique (IIAM; Institute of Agricultural Research of Mozambique)
- Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM)
- Institut national de la recherche agronomique du Niger (INRAN)
- Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey (UAM)
- Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR) of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU)
- National Cereals Research Institute (NCRI)
- National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI)
- Centre d’étude régional pour l’amélioration de l’adaptation à la sécheresse (CERAAS)
- Institut sénégalais de recherches agricoles (ISRA)
- Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) (also University of Dakar)
South Africa (move to emerging economies)
- African Centre for Crop Improvement (ACCI) of the University of KwaZulu–Natal (UKZN)
- African Centre for Gene Technologies (ACGT)
- University of KwaZulu–Natal (UKZN)
- University of Pretoria
- University of the Free State (UFS/UV)
- Agricultural Research Institute of the Sugarcane Research Institute (ARI–SRI), Tanzania
- Naliendele Research Station of the Agricultural Research Institute (ARI–Naliendele)
- National Plant Genetic Resources Center (NPGRC)
- National Root and Tuber Crops Improvement Programme (NRTP)
- Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA)
- National Crop Resources Research Institute (NaCRRI)
- Makerere University
- University of Zambia
- Crop Breeding Institute of the Department of Agricultural Research for Development
- Department of Agriculture Research and Specialist Services
Asia
- Bangladesh Agricultural University
- Bangladesh Rice Research Institute
- University of Dhaka
- Cambodian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI)
China <<move to emerging economies>>
- Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences* (CAAS)
- Hebei Academy of Agricultural Sciences (HAAS)
- Institute of Crop Science of CAAS
- Institute of Crop Science of the Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Institute of Dry Farming of HAAS
- Institute of Nuclear and Biological Technologies of the Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement (NFCRI) of CAAS
- Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences (SAAS)
- Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (XAAS)
- Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences (YAAS)
India <<move to emerging econmies>
- Agharkar Research Institute of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)
- Agricultural Research Station at Durgapura of ICAR*
- Agricultural Research Station at Gulbarga of the University of Agricultural Sciences at Bangalore
- All-India Coordinated Pearl Millet Improvement Project
- Barwale Foundation
- Birsa Agricultural University
- Central Arid Zone Research Institute
- Central Rainfed Upland Rice Research Station of the Central Rice Research Institute
- Central Rice Research Institute of ICAR
- Department of Biotechnology
- Directorate of Rice Research
- Directorate of Sorghum Research of ICAR
- Indian Agricultural Research Institute of ICAR
- Indian Council of Agricultural Research* (ICAR)
- Indian Institute of Pulses Research of ICAR
- Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya (also Indira Gandhi Agricultural University)
- Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwavidyalaya (also Jawaharlal Nehru Agricultural University)
- Marathwada Agricultural University
- Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology
- National Institute of Plant Genome Research, India
- National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology
- Punjab Agricultural University
- Rafi Ahmad Kidwai College of Agriculture at Sehore of ICAR*
- Regional Agricultural Research Station at Nandyal of ICAR*
- Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University
- Tamil Nadu Agricultural University
- University of Agricultural Sciences at Bangalore
- University of Agricultural Sciences at Dharwad
- Indonesian Center for Agricultural Biotechnology and Genetic Resources Research and Development
- Indonesian Cereals Research Institute
- Seed and Plant Improvement Institute
Japan <<move>>
- Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences
- Nagoya University
- National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute
- Department of Agricultural Research
- University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB)
- Bureau of Rice Research and Development
- Kasetsart University
- Nakhon Sawan Field Crops Research Center
- National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
- Ubon Ratchathani University
- National Maize Research Institute (NMRI)
Developing-country partners in 2010 are presented in the following regional clusters:
- Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA)
- East Europe
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- South and Southeast Asia (country and regional partners)
- Sub-Saharan Africa (country and regional partners)
Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA)
Morocco
1. Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA–Morocco)‡
Tunisia
2. Centre de Biotechnologie de Sfax
3. Université de Tunis El Manar
East Europe
Bulgaria
4. Institute for Plant Genetic Resources (IPGR)
Hungary
5. Agricultural Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
6. Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Physiology, Eszterházy Károly College, Eger
Latin America and the Caribbean
Argentina
7. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA–Argentina)
Bolivia
8. Fundación PROINPA (PROINPA)
Chile
9. Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIA–Chile)
Colombia
10. Federación Nacional de Arroceros (Fedearroz)
Costa Rica
11. Centro de Inteligencia sobre Mercados Sostenibles, Instituto Centroamericano de Administración de Empresas (CIMS–INCAE)
Ecuador
12. Centro de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas del Ecuador, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (CIBE–ESPOL)
Nicaragua
13. Instituto Nicaragüense de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA–Nicaragua)
Peru
14. Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (UNALM)
Uruguay
15. Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria (INIA–Uruguay)
16. Universidad de la Republica
South and Southeast Asia
Country partners
Bangladesh
17. Bangladesh Agricultural University
18. Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee
19. Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI)
20. University of Dhaka (DU)
Cambodia
21. Cambodian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI)
Indonesia
22. Indonesian Center for Agricultural Biotechnology and Genetic Resources Research and Development (ICABIOGRAD)
23. Indonesian Center for Rice Research
24. Indonesian Cereals Research Institute (ICERI)
Laos
25. National Agricultural and Forestry Research Institute (NAFRI)
Myanmar
26. Department of Agricultural Research (DAR)
Sri Lanka
27. Coconut Research Institute of Sri Lanka (CRISL)
28. Rice Research and Development Institute
Vietnam
29. Agricultural Genetics Institute
30. Field Crop Research Institute
31. National Maize Research Institute (NMRI)
Regional and sub-regional partners
32. A community of practice for rice production in the Mekong region coordinated by BIOTEC (Rice Gene Discovery Unit)/Kasetsart University (Thailand), incorporating the following partners:
a. CARDI (Cambodia)
b. Department of Agricultural Research (DAR, Myanmar)
c. NAFRI (Laos)
d. Ubon Ratchathani University, Thailand
Sub-Saharan Africa
Country partners
Burkina Faso
33. Institut de l’environnement et recherches agricoles (INERA)
Cameroon
34. Institut de recherche agricole pour le développement (IRAD)
Ethiopia
35. Debre Zeit Agricultural Research Centre (DZARC)
36. Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)
37. Jimma University College of Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine (JUCAVM)
38. South Agricultural Research Institute (SARI–Ethiopia)
Ghana
39. Crops Research Institute, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
40. Plant Genetic Resources Research Institute (PGRRI), Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
41. Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI–CSIR), Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Kenya
42. Egerton University
43. Embu Agricultural Staff Training (EAST) College
44. Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI)
45. Moi University
46. University of Nairobi
Malawi
47. Chitedze Research Station (CRS)
48. Department of Agriculture Research and Technical Services (DARTS)
Mali
49. Institut d’économie rurale (IER)
Mozambique
50. Instituto de Investigação Agrária de Moçambique (IIAM; Institute for Agricultural Research)
51. Universidade Eduardo Mondlane
Niger
52. Institut national de la recherche agronomique du Niger (INRAN)
Nigeria
53. National Cereals Research Institute (NCRI)
54. National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI)
Senegal
55. Centre d’étude régional pour l’amélioration de l’adaptation à la sécheresse, (CERAAS)
56. Institut sénégalais de recherches agricoles (ISRA)
Tanzania
57. Agricultural Research Institute, Naliendele Research Station
58. KATRIN Agricultural Research Institute
59. Lake Zone Agricultural Research and Development Institute (LZARDI)
60. National Plant Genetic Resources Centre (NPGRC)
61. National Root and Tuber Programme, Agricultural Research Institute, Naliendele Research Station
62. Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA)
Uganda
63. National Crop Resources Research Institute (NaCRRI)
Zambia
64. University of Zambia
Zimbabwe
65. Crop Breeding Institute (CBI), Department of Research and Specialist Services (DR&SS)
66. Department of Agricultural Research for Development, Zimbabwe (DAR4D)
Regional and sub-regional partners
67. A community of practice on cassava breeding coordinated by NRCRI (Nigeria), with institutional members from:
a. CRI–CSIR (Ghana)
b. NaCRRI (Uganda)
c. National Root and Tuber Programme, ARI–Naliendele (Tanzania)
and mentors from CIAT and IITA
68. African Centre for Crop Improvement (ACCI), University of KwaZulu–Natal, South Africa
69. Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)/Program for African Seed Systems (PASS)
70. Eastern and Central Africa Bean Research Network (ECABREN)
71. Southern Africa Bean Research Network (SABRN)
72. West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), University of Ghana (UG)
Please see partner listings in our Annual Reports.
