Year: 2019

Director of People, Culture and Risk Management

Director General

BISA Managing Director, CIMMYT Country Representative for India and CIMMYT Regional Representative for South Asia

Member, CIMMYT Board of Trustees

Member, CIMMYT Board of Trustees

Deputy Chair, CIMMYT Board of Trustees

Honorary Chair, CIMMYT Board of Trustees
News

tag icon Capacity development

CIMMYT and EIAR officially closed a wheat seed scaling project that benefitted 131,132 households.

In the media

tag icon Innovations

Source: BBC News (1 Mar 2019)

CIMMYT’s head of wheat research Ravi Singh commented on the publication of the wheat gene map.

News

tag icon Nutrition, health and food security

CIMMYT scientist Carolina Rivera is one of the six recipients of the 2019 Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum (WIT) Early Career Award.

News

tag icon Climate adaptation and mitigation

A study demonstrates how rice and wheat can be grown using 40 percent less water.

Press releases

tag icon Nutrition, health and food security

Occupying 12 acres of land, the facility is expected to produce at least 30,000 DH lines a year.

Scientist - Markets and Value Chain Specialist
In the media

tag icon Innovations

Source: SeedQuest (20 Mar 2019)

The maize DH facility, funded by the CGIAR Research Program on Maize, has the potential to accelerate maize breeding and hybrid development in Asia.

Publications

tag icon Nutrition, health and food security

This research is especially significant for countries where the health burdens of exposure to aflatoxin and prevalence of vitamin A deficiency converge with high rates of maize consumption.