Year: 2022

Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
News

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we spoke to Pragya Timsina about how women’s participation in agriculture is evolving across the Eastern Gangetic Plains and her findings which will be included in a paper coming out later this year: ‘Necessity as a driver of bending agricultural gender norms in South Asia’.

Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Features

New research explores how the adoption of Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices can help address environmental issues, reduce out-migration, and ensure household food security.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
Explainers

Over millennia, natural selection and humans have systematically adapted the plant species that provide food and other vital products, changing their physical and genetic makeup for enhanced productivity, nutrition and resilience. Plant breeders apply science to continue improving crop varieties, making them more productive and better adapted to climate extremes, insects, drought and diseases.

Capacity development
Features

Research on gender and maize looks to move beyond trait preferences at seed demand more broadly.

Gender equality, youth and social inclusion

Director, Sustainable Agrifood Systems program
Capacity development
News

Contributions reflect the breadth of perspectives and expertise within CGIAR and beyond, calling for more demand-oriented variety development and seed delivery.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
News

Projects will focus on developing new breeding technologies, screening tools and novel traits to improve wheat in the face of heat and drought.

Innovations
News

CIMMYT is offering a new set of improved maize hybrids to partners, to scale up production for farmers in the region.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
Features

Sanjaya Rajaram, former CIMMYT Wheat Program Director, has been recognized with the Padma Bhushan Award for his contributions to wheat improvement worldwide.

Environmental health and biodiversity
Publications

Researchers evaluate the use of genomic selection in wheat breeding against deadly fungal disease.

Environmental health and biodiversity
Features

CIMMYT scientists in Turkey investigated the effect of soil borne diseases individually and in combination with drought on morphological and physiological traits in wheat germplasm.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
Features

Increasingly unpredictable weather poses challenges for breeding widely-adapted wheat lines, but stress tolerance breeding is boosting wheat’s hardiness under rising temperatures.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
Blogs

In addition to macronutrients and micronutrients, staple cereals are important sources of bioactive food components.

Nutrition, health and food security
In the media

Source: Forbes (29 Dec 2022)

Pooja Bhatnagar-Mathur, a Principal Scientist at CIMMYT, says aflatoxin, a toxin produced from soil fungus and found in groundnuts like peanuts, is a serious public health and food safety problem around the globe.