Year: 2017

News

tag icon Climate adaptation and mitigation

Women and youth help lead efforts to adopt climate-friendly farming and safeguard indigenous maize yields.

Publications

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A new study examined over 700 independent studies to find out if Conservation Agriculture works in a variety of environmental conditions in tropical areas.

In the media

tag icon Nutrition, health and food security

Source: Financial Times (7 Nov 2017)

Research into future-proof crops is needed to combat hunger, conflict and migration.

News

tag icon Nutrition, health and food security

CIMMYT wheat physiologist Matthew Reynolds presents a new proposal for expanding the wheat network to include other major food crops and speed farmers’ adoption of vital technologies.

Features

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New insurance products geared towards smallholder farmers can help them recover their losses, and even encourage investment in climate-resilient innovations.

Features

tag icon Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
News

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Zhonghu He, CIMMYT distinguished scientists and country liaison office in China, was one of a small number of scientists invited to the recent 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. He was selected based on his outstanding contributions in wheat research.

Features

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India needs to tackle greenhouse gas emissions from its rice and livestock sectors according to a study by CIMMYT and partners.

Features

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World Food Prize laureates have joined forces with an international alliance battling the fall armyworm, an aggressive pest indigenous to the Americas with a voracious appetite, and now widespread throughout Africa.

Features

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Scientist Clare Stirling describes how agriculture can reduce its emissions and adapt to climate change.

Features

tag icon Innovations

Gene editing technology could revolutionize the way scientists breed high-yielding drought, disease and pest resistant, high quality plant seeds, greatly reducing the time it currently takes to develop new varieties

News

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In the 1960s, India became the center of the Green Revolution. Today, India needs a new Green Revolution.