{"id":1983,"date":"2022-09-21T08:15:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T06:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/104.238.170.140\/seedcogroup\/zw\/fieldcrops\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2023-01-24T11:37:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T09:37:58","slug":"top-zimbabwean-plant-breeder-appointed-to-senior-role-at-cgiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seedcogroup.com\/zw\/fieldcrops\/top-zimbabwean-plant-breeder-appointed-to-senior-role-at-cgiar\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Zimbabwean plant breeder appointed to senior role at CGIAR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Sifelani Tsiko &#8211; Agric, Environment &amp; Innovations Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor John Derera, a renowned Zimbabwean plant breeder, has landed a top post at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (ONE-CGIAR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was appointed as ONE-CGIAR\u2019s senior director plant breeding and pre-breeding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CGIAR, now known as ONE-CGIAR, is a global research partnership of 13 international agricultural research centres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The entity aims to build a food-secure future through transforming food, land, and water systems in a climate crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to his appointment, he was the head of Breeding at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past, he also worked as the Global Head of Research &amp; Development (Seed Co Group), professor in Plant Breeding (African Centre for Crop Improvement, University of KwaZulu-Natal), maize breeder (Seed Co) and as a research officer in the Department of Research &amp; Specialist Services in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sifelani Tsiko &#8211; Agric, Environment &amp; Innovations Editor Professor John Derera, a renowned Zimbabwean plant breeder, has landed a top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seedcogroup.com\/zw\/fieldcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seedcogroup.com\/zw\/fieldcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seedcogroup.com\/zw\/fieldcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seedcogroup.com\/zw\/fieldcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seedcogroup.com\/zw\/fieldcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.seedcogroup.com\/zw\/fieldcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"https:\/\/www.seedcogroup.com\/zw\/fieldcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seedcogroup.com\/zw\/fieldcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seedcogroup.com\/zw\/fieldcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seedcogroup.com\/zw\/fieldcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seedcogroup.com\/zw\/fieldcrops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}