Year: 2019

Nutrition, health and food security
In the media

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.

Capacity development
Features

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

Innovations
Publications

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.

Environmental health and biodiversity
Publications

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

Innovations
Features

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

Systems Agronomist

High-throughput Genotyping Specialist

Scientist, Quantitative Geneticist
Nutrition, health and food security
In the media

Source: IPP Media (14 Dec 2019)

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

Nutrition, health and food security
In the media

Source: Down to Earth (12 Dec 2019)

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

Climate adaptation and mitigation
In the media

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.

Nutrition, health and food security
Explainers

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.

Nutrition, health and food security
In the media

Source: The Conversation (11 Dec 2019)

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

Capacity development
Videos

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

Capacity development
Features

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