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Unlocking insights from literature: exploring adaptation options in ACASA
InnovationsUsing Systematic Literature Review, ACASA has identified key climate adaptation options and assessed their effectiveness.
USAID team lauds PQR value chain process in Bangladesh
Poverty reduction, livelihoods and jobsUSAID experts praised northern Bangladesh’s premium quality rice (PQR) value chain process.
A community leader in Baliakandi inspires women empowerment in agriculture: Promila Rani Mondol
Capacity developmentPromila’s story as a successful machinery solution provider, with support from CSISA-MEA, is encouraging more women in her community to venture into farming and seedling raising services.
Breaking ground and redefining roles in the agri engineering sector: Anjuara Begum
Capacity developmentAnjuara’s journey from a widowed mother to a successful grinding operator is an inspiring story of resilience. CSISA–MEA’s light engineering training for women has not only transformed Anjuara’s life but also prompted a paradigm shift in the perception of women’s capabilities in traditionally male-dominated roles.
Prospect of boosting lentil production bright in Rajshahi region
InnovationsSource: daily observer ()
The collaboration between CIMMYT, RWMRC, and the Krishi Gobeshona Foundation aims to revolutionize lentil production in Rajshahi, Bangladesh.
Advancing conservation agriculture
Capacity developmentA workshop brings together scientists to share the latest innovations in conservation agriculture to benefit smallholder farmers and reduce the effects of climate change on food production.
Heat tolerant maize hybrids: a pursuit to strengthen food security in South Asia
Climate adaptation and mitigationCIMMYT’s systematic and targeted breeding strategy in South Asia helped develop 20 high yielding and heat-stress tolerant maize hybrids. The ongoing efforts strengthens the livelihood of farm families who are highly vulnerable to climate change in the Asian tropics.
Sowing seeds of change: CIMMYT leads crop diversification efforts in South Asia
Capacity developmentCIMMYT is leading South Asia’s crop diversification efforts with projects such as TAFSSA and RUPANTAR, focusing on evidence-based policies and robust support to smallholder farmers.
Exposing the potential of agricultural mechanization in India and Bangladesh
Capacity developmentCSISA-MEA, with support from USAID, organized exposure visits to India for Bangladeshi farmers to encourage environmentally friendly practices and business expansion among ABLE enterprises.
Fodder Technology Chops Backbreaking Labor in Half for Bangladeshi Women
Environmental health and biodiversitySource: AgriLink (31 Mar 2023)
The fodder chopper implemented by CIMMYT has been a game-changer for female farmers and wider rural economies in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh to improve risk characterization at a granular level with Atlas
Climate adaptation and mitigationEvaluation and Planning Workshop on Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA)
Capacity developmentThrough its work in South Asia, TAFSSA contributes to developing more sustainable and equitable agrifood systems for smallholder farmers in the region.
CIMMYT and BWMRI host international training program on surveillance and management strategies for wheat blast
Capacity developmentWheat researchers, government extension agents, and policy makers gather in Bangladesh to develop their skills in pathology, breeding, agronomy, integrated disease management and agricultural extension technologies.
The Australian High Commission, ACIAR and BARC delegates recognizes the BWMRI-CIMMYT collaborative wheat blast research platform in Bangladesh
Environmental health and biodiversityDelegates travelled to South Asia to witness the success of a collaboration which is combatting wheat blast disease in Bangladesh and for other wheat growing nations.
Identifying climate mitigation strategies from AFOLU sector in Mexico
Climate adaptation and mitigationCIMMYT researchers comb through data to enumerate the benefits, and costs, of specific climate mitigation initiatives in the AFOLU sector of Mexico.