Year: 2018

Press releases

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International consortium established to connect research with practical field solutions against pest.

News

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Four awardees are using modern technologies, dedicated to new knowledge and with hopes to improve the world.

Features

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Ten farmers in a hot and dry area of Zimbabwe trial intercropping legumes and green manure cover crops alongside their maize, to assess their impact on soil fertility.

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We have seen an increased use of improved seed, appropriate technologies and agricultural machinery, all adapted to the specific needs of African farmers. It’s time to take this progress even further.

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The seed varieties stored in the CIMMYT germplasm bank were of vital importance in efforts to restore food security in the aftermath of Hurricane Stan.

Publications

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For the first time ever, a research team of more than 40 scientists has genetically characterized values of exotics in hexaploid wheat.

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CIMMYT’s director general Martin Kropff met with the president of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa.

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MARPLE (Mobile And Real-time PLant disEase) is a portable testing lab which could help speed-up the identification of devastating wheat rust diseases in Africa.

Features

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Participants in GLF Nairobi 2018 called for concrete collective action to restore degraded landscapes.

News

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Matthew Rouse, a researcher with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is being recognized for his work to contain and reduce the impact of Ug99.

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CIMMYT scientist talks about the new wheat genome map