Download - Maize
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Strategic<br />
Initiative<br />
SI 4. Stress<br />
tolerant maize for<br />
the poorest<br />
SI 5. Towards<br />
doubling maize<br />
productivity<br />
Partner type<br />
Multinational seed companies and biotechnology<br />
organizations (building on successful collaboration with<br />
Monsanto, Syngenta, AATF and Pioneer); ARIs (e.g. Cornell<br />
University, Hohenheim University) including those in the<br />
developing world (Brazil, China, India, Mexico)<br />
NARSs, local seed companies, NGOs and CBOs in droughtaffected<br />
countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.<br />
Development partners engaged with farming families and<br />
communities<br />
Economists in NARSs, IARCs and universities<br />
NARSs and private sector in Africa, Latin America, and Asia<br />
that are able and willing to engage in open‐source breeding,<br />
can provide rapid return of high‐quality data, and have<br />
effective germplasm import/export approaches<br />
CIMMYT and IITA<br />
Formalized members of International <strong>Maize</strong> Improvement<br />
Consortium (IMIC) from NARSs, private sector and NGOs.<br />
Partner roles<br />
Positional cloning of relevant native‐trait alleles and transgene sourcing and<br />
deployment; transgenic trait research; new breeding methods<br />
Local variety adaptation/selection, release, and scaling‐out to farmers in<br />
stress‐prone environments<br />
Improve technical services and market access<br />
Rapid, participatory assessment of maize germplasm needs of pre‐commercial<br />
farmers, distinguished by gender, poverty group, mega‐environment and<br />
market access<br />
High‐quality collaborative phenotyping, open‐source breeding and testing<br />
targeted at pre‐commercial farmers, clustered by mega‐environments, agreed<br />
trait priorities and client needs; managed through competitive performance<br />
contracts<br />
Facilitation and participation in collaborative germplasm development with<br />
particular focus on cutting‐edge breeding approaches (doubled‐haploids,<br />
genomics selection, precision phenotyping) targeted at the needs of precommercial<br />
farmers; international data exchange and main source germplasm<br />
provider; broker for use of proprietary know‐how, technologies and<br />
germplasm<br />
Set development priorities that influence breeding; comply with obligations to<br />
report on germplasm performance and use (in return, get rapid and<br />
preferential access to germplasm, training, and crop management<br />
innovations); non‐members to get access to a more limited germplasm as IPGs<br />
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