 Annual Report 2000 - 2001 Global Research for Local Livelihoods |
A Message from the Director General
CIMMYT's Mission, Partners, Activities, and Impact
CIMMYT Funding Trends and Topics, 2000-2001
Meeting the Needs of the World’s Poor through Wheat and Maize Research
“Our Visit Changed My Vision of Agriculture”
Acronyms and Abbreviations
| ABC | Applied Biotechnology Center, CIMMYT |
| ACIAR | Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research |
| ACT | Almanac Characterization Tool |
| ADB | Asian Development Bank |
| AFLP | Amplified fragment length polymorphism |
| AMS | Africa Maize Stress Project |
| Bt | Bacillus thuringiensis |
| CGIAR | Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research |
| CIMMYT | International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center |
| CIP | International Potato Center |
| CIRAD | Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, France |
| CRC-MPB | Collaborative Research Centre for Molecular Plant Breeding |
| DAA | Department of Agricultural Affairs, East Timor |
| DFID | Department for International Development, UK |
| DGIS | Directorate-General for International Cooperation, the Netherlands |
| ETTA | East Timor Transitional Administration |
| FONTAGRO | Regional Fund for Agricultural Technology, Latin America and the Caribbean |
| GIS | Geographic information systems |
| GRMN | Global Rust Monitoring Network |
| ICAR | Indian Council of Agricultural Research |
| ICARDA | International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas |
| ICRAF | International Centre for Research in Agroforestry |
| ICRISAT | International Center for Research in the Semi-Arid Tropics |
| IDIAP | Instituto de Investigación Agropecuaria de Panamá |
| IDRC | International Development Research Centre, Canada |
| IFAD | International Fund for Agricultural Development |
| ILRI | International Livestock Research Institute |
| INIFAP | Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias, Mexico |
| INTA | Instituto Nicaragüense de Tecnología Agropecuaria |
| IRD | Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France |
| IRMA | Insect Resistant Maize for Africa |
| IRRI | International Rice Research Institute |
| IWMI | International Water Management Institute |
| KARI | Kenya Agricultural Research Institute |
| NARC | National Agricultural Research Council, Pakistan Nepal Agricultural Research Council |
| NARS | National agricultural research system |
| NGO | Non-governmental organization |
| NRG | Natural Resources Group, CIMMYT |
| OFWM | On-Farm Water Management Directorate, Punjab, Pakistan |
| PRA | Participatory rural assessment |
| RWC | Rice-Wheat Consortium for the Indo-Gangetic Plains |
| SADLF | Southern Africa Drought and Low Soil Fertility Project |
| SDC | Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation |
| UNTAET | United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor |
| USAID | United States Agency for International Development WANA West Asia and North Africa |
CIMMYT Worldwide
Our Mission
CIMMYT is an international, non-profit, agricultural research and training center dedicated to helping the poor in low-income countries. We help alleviate poverty by increasing the profitability, productivity, and sustainability of maize and wheat farming systems.
Focus
Work concentrates on maize and wheat, two crops vitally important to food security. These crops provide about one-fourth of the total food calories consumed in low-income countries, are critical staples for poor people, and are an important source of income for poor farmers.
Partners
Our researchers work with colleagues in national agricultural research programs, universities, and other centers of excellence around the world; in the donor community; and in non-governmental organizations.
Activities
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Development and worldwide distribution of higher yielding maize and wheat with built-in genetic resistance to important diseases, insects, and other yield-reducing stresses.
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Conservation and distribution of maize and wheat genetic resources.
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Strategic research on natural resource management in maize-and wheat-based cropping systems.
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Development of new knowledge about maize and wheat.
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Development of more effective research methods.
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Training of many kinds.
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Consulting on technical issues.
Impact
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CIMMYT-related wheat varieties are planted on more than 64 million hectares in low-income countries, representing more than three-fourths of the area planted to modern wheat varieties in those countries.
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Nearly half of the area planted to modern maize varieties in non-temperate environments of developing countries is planted to CIMMYT-related varieties.
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Between 1987 and 1998, CIMMYT delivered nearly 40,000 shipments of wheat seed and more than 20,000 shipments of maize seed to researchers in developing and developed countries. These shipments, which included improved materials developed by CIMMYT breeders and accessions from our germplasm banks, represented a valuable source of genetic resources for public and private research organizations.
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More than 9,000 researchers from around the world have benefited from CIMMYT’s training efforts. CIMMYT alumni now lead major breeding programs, public and private, throughout the world.
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Our information products and research networks improve the efficiency of researchers in more than 100 countries.
Funding
CIMMYT wishes to thank the many governments and organizations that help us fulfill our mission. We owe a special debt of gratitude to those who support our core activities. The impacts described in this publication would have been impossible to achieve without that support.
Location
Activities and impact extend throughout the world via 17 regional offices. Headquarters are in Mexico. See contact information.
Published on October 2001
August, 2004