Month: December 2016
Participatory scaling of climate-smart agriculture
Capacity development
A recap of climate smart agriculture in Bihar, India through 2016.
Harnessing medical technology and global partnerships to drive gains in food crop productivity
Innovations
Global research networks must overcome nationalist and protectionist tendencies to provide technology advances the world urgently needs.
Engaging youth: beyond the buzzword
Capacity development
Researchers are seeking to re-engage rural youth who are increasingly abandoning agriculture to work in cities, raising the question who will grow our food in the future?
Improved maize offers new economic opportunity to Kenyan family
Innovations
Improved maize varieties offer new economic opportunity to families in Kenya.
Crop and bio-economic modeling for an uncertain climate
Climate adaptation and mitigation
The potential impact of climate change on agriculture and the complexity of possible adaptation responses require the application of new research methods and tools to develop adequate strategies, writes Gideon Kruseman.
Can sub-Saharan Africa meet its future cereal food requirement?
Nutrition, health and food security
To satisfy the enormous increase in demand for food in sub-Saharan Africa by 2050, cereal yields must increase to 80 percent of their potential.
New Publications: Rise of micro-satellites offers cost-effective way to collect data on smallholder farms
Innovations
Micro-satellites are emerging as an effective low-cost option to collecting data like sow date and yields on small farms across the developing world.
Maize seed and training aim to reduce aid dependency in Haiti
Capacity development
The Haiti Mayi project aims to kick-start a local seed sector, keep famine at bay, end dependence on international aid and reduce imports.
Wheat rust poses food security risk for global poor, says DFID’s Priti Patel
Nutrition, health and food security
Wheat rust monitoring efforts are not only keeping the fast-spreading disease in check, but are deployed to manage other crop diseases, said a scientist at a scientific meeting in London.
Healthy soils for a healthy, food secure future
Innovations
Humanity relies on soils not only for food production but also for a range of vital ecosystem services, its health is essential to a healthy and food secure future.
CGIAR congratulates the Convention on Biological Diversity at COP13
CGIAR committed to contribute to the actions mentioned in the Cancun Declaration on Mainstreaming the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity for Well-Being together with all its partners.
Cutting-edge tools promote conservation, use of biodiversity
Innovations
CIMMYT scientists will present at the COP 13 conference on a new collection of tools and resources that could revolutionize maize breeding and promote genetic diversity conservation.
Scientists meet in Mexico to revolutionize ways of “watching” experimental plants
Innovations
200 world-class scientists from over 20 countries will gather in Mexico from December 13 to 15 for the 4th International Plant Phenotyping Symposium.
