Year: 2019
Nutrition, health and food security
Candidate for FAO leadership Qu Dongyu visits CIMMYT’s headquarters to sign MoU and strengthen collaboration
China’s vice minister of agriculture and rural affairs, Qu Dongyu, visited the global headquarters of CIMMYT.
Arun Kumar Joshi
BISA Managing Director, CIMMYT Country Representative for India and CIMMYT Regional Representative for South Asia
Capacity development
Ethiopia calls for continued collaboration to increase wheat production and meet nutritional and food security
CIMMYT and EIAR officially closed a wheat seed scaling project that benefitted 131,132 households.
Innovations
Wheat gene map to help ‘feed the world’
Source: BBC News (1 Mar 2019)
CIMMYT’s head of wheat research Ravi Singh commented on the publication of the wheat gene map.
Nutrition, health and food security
Q&A with 2019 Women in Triticum awardee Carolina Rivera
CIMMYT scientist Carolina Rivera is one of the six recipients of the 2019 Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum (WIT) Early Career Award.
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Innovative irrigation promises “more crop per drop” for India’s water-stressed cereals
A study demonstrates how rice and wheat can be grown using 40 percent less water.
Nutrition, health and food security
CIMMYT and UAS-Bangalore to establish a maize doubled haploid facility in Karnataka, India
Occupying 12 acres of land, the facility is expected to produce at least 30,000 DH lines a year.
