Month: June 2017

News

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Climate change’s impact in eastern and southern Africa has driven many farmers to seek new planting techniques that maintain or increase crop production, despite fewer resources.

Publications

tag icon Climate adaptation and mitigation

Farmers in Pakistan that practice climate change adaptation strategies have higher food security levels and are less likely to live in poverty than those that don’t.

News

tag icon Nutrition, health and food security

CIMMYT will send 150 tons of renewed, improved maize seed to Haiti, the largest seed shipment to any country in the organization’s history.

News

tag icon Nutrition, health and food security

Farmers in Pakistan are eagerly adopting a nutrient-enhanced wheat variety offering improved food security, higher incomes, health benefits and a delicious taste.

News

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Farmers and research partners are praising innovative, locally manufactured farm implements that support conservation agriculture in rice-wheat farming rotation in Pakistan.

News

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The sixth International Winter Wheat Travelling Seminar was recently held in Krasnodar, Russia, to improve wheat breeding across West and Central Asia.

Features

tag icon Gender equality, youth and social inclusion

Social inequality, including gender discrimination, hinders the potential for economic development, a key focus of the agriculture for development community.

News

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Blogs

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Development initiatives are only truly successful when participants graduate, adopt and leave.

Publications

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New evidence shows that not only do improved maize varieties increase crop productivity and farmer income, they can also decrease child malnutrition.

Features

tag icon Nutrition, health and food security

AbduRahman Beshir and his team are developing climate-resilient, biofortified and biotic stress-tolerant maize to enhance the maize seed sector.

Features

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To ensure that quality seed standards are maintained, CIMMYT supports partners such as national agricultural research institutions and seed producers in acquisition and production of pure early generation seed.

News

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Villegas was recognized for co-developing quality protein maize.

News

tag icon Climate adaptation and mitigation

Agriculture is the second largest emitter of global greenhouse gas emissions and largest driver of deforestation, making the sector one of the top contributors to climate change and biodiversity loss.