Click on the link below to view the webinar by Almendra Cremaschi from the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT on 14 January 2026 entitled Standard Operating Procedures as scientific infrastructure for scalable participatory breeding.
Presenter Bio: Dr. Almendra Cremaschi is a researcher and practitioner working on participatory plant breeding, data governance, and open science. She collaborates with the Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT on tricot trials across multiple crops and regions, is a researcher at CONICET and a professor at the National University of San Martín (Argentina).
For more info, contact Almendra at a.cremaschi@cgiar.org
Summary of presentation: Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) form the foundational scientific infrastructure for large-scale, decentralized on-farm trials within the tricot approach. The presentation covered what SOPs are, how they are structured, and why they matter. It also showed how cross-crop harmonization through core traits, curated question libraries, and crop ontologies supports data interoperability and integration within digital systems such as ClimMob and downstream platforms. The presentation concluded with a practical demonstration of how SOPs are created and operationalized in ClimMob, followed by an overview of ongoing work and next steps.
