Jawoo Koo, IFPRI, and Andrea Gardeazabal, CIMMYT, explain how smallholders in Africa, Asia and Latin America will benefit from the CGIAR Initiative for Digital Innovation.

New equipment will speed up and enhance the accuracy of national breeding processes including seed preparation, data collection and inventory management.

These technologies, known as high-throughput phenotyping platforms, replace lengthy paper-based visual observations of crop trials.