Plan for Objective 2: Strategies for breeding for future climatic conditions, variability and extremes, including novel climates Products Target Institutes Year Activities Assumptions Regions Involved Ensuring that research meetings and policy organizations with key are actively engaged stakeholders to from the early stages of mainstream 2011 Global the research in both strategies into design and post-project workplans and implementation of the existing breeding strategies developed. programs Development of a range of modeling Global of crop modeling approaches with approaches to model developed and biotic and abiotic validated for components constraints under assessing future of , integrate decadal futures from constraints to crop closely with 2020 to 2050. production and the ongoing and design of virtual future crops. Generation Challenge Program (GCP) molecular 2011 and breeding platforms. CGIAR centers, NARS, ARI breeding institutes, private sector breeding companies. Detailed CG-centres, Design of a set of “virtual strategies and ARI crops” and assessment plans of action for modeling of their efficacy in 2012 Global crop improvement groups, addressing the likely developed, NARS future conditions in incorporating scientists terms of the economic, portfolio of national,
Plan for Objective 2: Strategies for breeding for future climatic conditions, variability and extremes, including novel climates Year Activities Products Assumptions Target Regions Institutes Involved 2011 Ensuring that research and policy organizations are actively engaged from the early stages of the research in both design and post-project implementation of the strategies developed. meetings with key stakeholders to mainstream strategies into workplans and existing breeding programs Global 2011 Development of a range of crop modeling approaches to model biotic and abiotic constraints under decadal futures from 2020 to 2050. of modeling approaches developed and validated for assessing future constraints to crop production and the design of virtual crops. Global with components of , integrate closely with ongoing and future Generation Challenge Program (GCP) molecular and breeding platforms. CGIAR centers, NARS, ARI breeding institutes, private sector breeding companies. 2012 Design of a set of “virtual crops” and assessment of their efficacy in addressing the likely future conditions in terms of the economic, Detailed strategies and plans of action for crop improvement developed, incorporating portfolio of national, Global CG-centres, ARI modeling groups, NARS scientists
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