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FFAR awards €5 million to CropXR research The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR), an American organisation dedicated to funding bold research addressing big food and agriculture challenges through public-private partnerships, has awarded €5 million to CropXR’s 10-year research programme into ‘smart breeding’ methods for more resilient crops. FFAR’s funds will support a research programme

CropXR launched, NWO contributing 15 million euros New institute to develop ‘smart breeding’ method for more resilient, sustainable and climate-adaptive agriculture The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) will contribute 15 million euros to a CropXR research programme into ‘smart breeding’ of more resilient crops. NWO’s grant marks the start of the new Dutch institute,

CropXR appoints Board of Directors CropXR, a public-private collaborative institute dedicated to developing more resilient plants with innovative ‘smart breeding’ methods, has announced the appointment of the new Institute’s Board of Directors. The Board of Directors will manage the activities of CropXR on a daily basis, as well as appoint and oversee supporting staff. The

CropXR founders name institute’s Supervisory Board The public-private consortium behind CropXR, the collaborative institute dedicated to developing more resilient plants with innovative ‘smart breeding’ methods, has formally named the new institute’s international Supervisory Board. The Supervisory Board will play a fundamental role in CropXR, overseeing the general direction of the institute’s work. Named as members

Public-private consortium signs CropXR collaboration agreement A public-private consortium of four Dutch universities and an umbrella organisation of Dutch-based producers of starting materials has agreed to collaborate in founding CropXR, a new institute dedicated to developing more resilient plants with innovative ‘smart breeding’ methods. CropXR’s mission will be to make agricultural production less vulnerable to