Archive for July, 2014
CIMMYT-led climate project is finalist at Asia Mobile Tech Awards
July 30, 2014By Katie Lutz A CIMMYT-led project was named as a finalist for the 2014 mBillionth Award South Asia thanks to its mobile platform that helps farmers adapt to changing climate conditions. “Disseminati …
Affordable drought-tolerant maize for small holder farmers
July 30, 2014By Anita Mins There is a growing need for drought-tolerant maize cultivars among smallholder farmers in developing countries, particularly in Asia where the cultivars’ development is a technical reali …
IMAS technical staff undergo training to manage risks during confined field trials
July 29, 2014Participants mark the field during the practical segment of the training session. Picture: Titus Kosgei/CIMMYT By Florence Sipalla Ten members of the technical staff from the Improved Maize for Africa …
Climate-smart villages in Indian Punjab are heading for resilient farming
July 29, 2014CIMMYT, with financial support from the CCAFS South Asia regional program, recently initiated climate-smart village (CSV) pilots in Punjab State, India.
CIMMYT-CCAFS scientists identify maize varieties that can withstand drought and high temperatures in Zimbabwe
July 28, 2014By Florence Sipalla and Jill Cairns/CIMMYT Schoolchildren singing a song they composed about climate change and agriculture at a field day in Gokwe, Zimbabwe. CIMMYT scientists working on the CGIAR Re …
IMAS technical staff undergo training to manage risks during confined field trials
July 25, 2014By Florence Sipalla/CIMMYT Ten members of the technical staff from the Improved Maize for African Soils (IMAS) project joined their counterparts from the Water Efficient Maize for Africa (WEMA) projec …
Smart tools for farmers in South Asia to help increase yield
July 24, 2014By Anuradha Dhar/CIMMYT In South Asia, 90 percent of smallholder farmers using fertilizer lack access to soil testing services. Due to blanket recommendations, the application of nutrients is not well …
CIAT and CIMMYT complete genetic analysis and plant breeding course in Colombia
July 23, 2014By Luis Narro and Janeth Bolaños/ CIMMYT Dr. Jiankang Wang planted a bread tree at the end of the course, which is a CIAT tradition to mark the close of an international training course. CIMMYT’s offi …
World Food Prize winner Rajaram: farmers and training are critical for wheat yields
July 22, 2014By Mike Listman/CIMMYT Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram, center, joined Nuria Urquía Fernández, left, representative in Mexico of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, and Raúl Urtea …
Boosting productivity of smallholder farms in Nepal, India and Bangladesh
July 18, 2014By Mahesh Gathala, TP Tiwari, Pat Wall/CIMMYT CIMMYT will lead a new research initiative to make agriculture more productive, profitable and sustainable for smallholder farmers in the Eastern Ganget …
SIMLESA Phase II up and running
July 18, 2014By Gift Mashango and Mekuria Mulugetta Members of the project management committee discussed SIMLESA’s second phase during a 1 July planning meeting in Addis Ababa. Phase II of the Sustainable Intensi …
CIMMYT Maize Program scientists assist African plant breeding academy training program in Kenya
July 17, 2014By B.M. Prasanna and Rita Mumm/CIMMYT The first group to take part in the African Plant Breeding Academy training program included 24 scientists from 11 countries in Africa. The African Plant Breeding …
Indian organizations honor Rajaram for World Food Prize win
July 16, 2014By Gurdev Singh/CIMMYT Dr. S. Ayyappan, director general of ICAR, honored Rajaram as “the best living wheat scientist in the world today.” Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram was on board a flight to New Delhi on 18 …
Bolivia and CIMMYT partner to boost sustainable grain production
July 15, 2014By Ricardo Curiel/CIMMYT Nemesia Achacollo, Bolivia’s Minister of Rural Development and Land, joined CIMMYT Director General Dr. Thomas A. Lumpkin in the lobby of the Borlaug building during her visi …
Economist: ‘You may never have heard about CGIAR, but you need to care about it’
July 11, 2014By Carissa Wodehouse/CIMMYT Visiting Fellow Richard Woodward of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) recently wrote a blog post titled “The CGIAR: The Most Important Internatio …
CIMMYT and Punjab agricultural research institutions partner to introduce multi-crop bed planter
July 10, 2014By Imtiaz Hussain and Hafiz Nasrullah/CIMMYT Farmers visiting cotton planted on wide beds with the planter. CIMMYT and the Punjab Department of Agriculture Research have introduced a multi-crop bed pl …
World Food Prize winner boosts wheat training at CIMMYT
July 10, 2014By Karen Willenbrecht/CIMMYT This classic photo of Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram, left, and Dr. Norman Borlaug studying data at the Ciudad Obregón experiment station in the 1990s was taken by Gene Hettel of th …
Climate-smart villages: the framework
July 3, 2014Climate-Smart Villages (CSVs) in Haryana, India, are prioritizing and promoting climate-smart agriculture (CSA) interventions. Through the work of CIMMYT and its partners, the CGIAR Research Program o …
Syngenta scientists visit CIMMYT–Turkey Seed Program
July 2, 2014By Abdelfattah A. Dababat and Dietrich Hermann/CIMMYT CIMMYT has been working with agriculture research institutes in Turkey since the mid-1980s, focusing on developing germplasm that is broadly adapt …
Farmers in southern Africa reap benefits of conservation agriculture
July 1, 2014CIMMYT’S Global Conservation Agriculture Program Manager, Irene Christiansen, received a first-hand look at the benefits and challenges of practicing conservation agriculture (CA) in southern Africa d …
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