Click on the link below to view the webinar by Violet Lasdun from London School of Economics on 4 February 2025, presenting her talk "Engaging Rural Youth in Data-Driven Plant Breeding”
Violet is a PhD student at the London School of Economics, working with the Alliance on a project to develop and scale AI technologies for plant breeding. Her research explores how breeding programs can leverage new technologies for highly decentralized data collection, providing insights into genotype-by-environment interactions in diverse production environments, and capturing detailed farmer preferences. These datasets support the development of target-adapted crop varieties that perform well in farmer fields and meet nuanced production and consumption objectives. In this presentation, she will share her experience implementing a tricot trial in Tanzania, emphasizing the human networks and connections that are essential for the successful adoption of new technologies and methods.
