Plant Breeding Blogs is an initiative to encourage breeders to speak their minds and share their views on important subjects, especially those related to the future of plant breeding.  By stimulating breeders to open and maintain their web logs, GIPB aims to offer a permanent space for debate, interaction and exchange.  Speak Up! is meant not only to encourage open communication and interaction in new ways, but also to provide breeders with new and concrete options of forward thinking and action. More information on Plant Breeding Blogs will be soon available in this link.

Speak Up! is a component of the Plant Breeding Global Forum designed to encourage breeders to use new and innovative communication tools towards cooperation, exchange and enhancement of Plant Breeding capacity for the future.  Many creative communication tools are available, and new ones continue to evolve. This component of the Forum will be starting with web logs ("blogs" for short), which have evolved into content-rich personal or collective webpages with text, images, videos, links and other features.  In the future, the Plant Breeding Global Forum will add other tools such as Social Bookmarks, Social Networks and Wikis.