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This chapter explores the processes by which these dynamics intensified once these initiatives were absorbed under the umbrella of HarvestPlus, one of the programmes 1 selected by the CGIAR in the early 2000s to pilot a new approach to the conduct and funding of research, called the ‘Challenge Program’. [...] In October of that year, the programme name was changed from the Biofortification Challenge Program to ‘HarvestPlus’, a name considered ‘more appealing to the general public’.34 In a presentation to the CGIAR AGM, the name change was explained as follows: [dq]We took the decision to change the name of the Biofortification Challenge Program to HarvestPlus as a way to reach out more effectively to t. [...] These dynamics are intensified in the Philippine context, given the late entry of PhilRice into the community of NARS in the region, in the context of accumulated disappointments and …