Year: 2019

In the media

tag icon Nutrition, health and food security

Source: Dawn (23 Dec 2019)

Pakistan has released 20 new high-yielding, disease-resistant and climate change-resilient wheat and maize varieties during the year.

Features

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CIMMYT wheat scientist explores new sources of rust resistance to create new rust-resistant wheat varieties.

Publications

tag icon Innovations

Researchers demonstrate that CIMMYT’s durum wheat lines can be grown, bred, and selected under zero tillage or conventional tillage conditions without negatively affecting yield.

Publications

tag icon Environmental health and biodiversity

CSISA publishes policy and research note on how to develop balanced nutrient management innovations in the region.

Features

tag icon Innovations

Amos Alakonya talks pests, procedure, and why everyone should be concerned about seed health.

Systems Agronomist

High-throughput Genotyping Specialist

Scientist, Quantitative Geneticist
In the media

tag icon Nutrition, health and food security

Source: IPP Media (14 Dec 2019)

CIMMYT introduced farmers Kassim Massi and Joyce Makawa to conservation agriculture.

In the media

tag icon Nutrition, health and food security

Source: Down to Earth (12 Dec 2019)

New study examines if agricultural intensification can take households across the poverty line.

In the media

tag icon Climate adaptation and mitigation

Source: Nexus Media (12 Dec 2019)

The CIMMYT germplasm bank preserves the seeds of maize varieties from all over the world, including landraces very valuable to farmers.

Explainers

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Wheat blast is one of the most fearsome and intractable wheat diseases in recent decades. It spreads through infected seeds, crop residues as well as by spores that can travel long distances in the air, posing a major threat to wheat production in tropical areas.

In the media

tag icon Nutrition, health and food security

Source: The Conversation (11 Dec 2019)

New study examines if agricultural intensification can take households across the poverty line.

Videos

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A new video highlights the work of the Heat and Drought Wheat Improvement Consortium (HeDWIC) to create new climate-resilient wheat varieties.

Features

tag icon Capacity development

CIMMYT scientist contributed to the development and adoption of more than 70 wheat varieties in Central and West Asia.