CIMMYT
2023: The International Year of the Millet
Nutrition, health and food security
Source: The EastAfrican (3 May 2023)
CIMMYT commits to scaling-up millet cultivation and further promoting technologies that encourage millet consumption and other dryland cereal crops.
The status of women in agri-food systems
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
CIMMYT’s efforts to align with FAO recommendations to strengthen women’s roles in food systems.
Six New CIMMYT maize hybrids available from eastern Africa Breeding Program
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Twenty Years of Enriching Diets with Biofortification
Nutrition, health and food security
20 years of rigorous scientific research.
Five new CIMMYT maize hybrids available from South Asia Breeding Program
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Startups and nonprofits race to unlock Africa’s agriculture potential as millions face food crisis and droughts
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Source: Moody's (19 Apr 2023)
Climate change, if unchecked, is expected to make food even more unaffordable. The economic shocks from increasing temperatures, water stress and continued droughts will push tens of millions of Africans into extreme poverty over the next decade, according to Moody’s partner TechnoServe.
Graduate of CIMMYT/ICAR partnership honored by Indian government
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Harisankar Nayak’s thesis honored at a ceremony hosted by India’s Vice President
CIMMYT endorses and implements expert recommendations to drive the transformation towards Zero Hunger by 2050
Nutrition, health and food security
A new paper published today by experts at The Chicago Council of Global Affairs identifies the three main obstacles to global food systems transformation and hunger eradication by 2050.
Ethiopian machines for Ethiopian farmers
Innovations
Locally produced seed cleaners are making a big difference in Ethiopia and inspiring innovation in Benin.
2023 Women In Triticum (WIT) Award Winners Announced
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI) is pleased to announce the 2023 Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum (WIT) Early Career and Mentor awardees, recognizing excellence in science and leadership for a wheat-secure future.
The Australian High Commission, ACIAR and BARC delegates recognizes the BWMRI-CIMMYT collaborative wheat blast research platform in Bangladesh
Environmental health and biodiversity
Delegates travelled to South Asia to witness the success of a collaboration which is combatting wheat blast disease in Bangladesh and for other wheat growing nations.
A deceptively simple hack boosts wheat yields in Bihar
Climate adaptation and mitigation
A hotter planet was devastating wheat yields in one of India’s poorest but most fertile states. Researchers looked at the agricultural system as a whole to find a promising path forward.
Some things have to die for others to live: Why scaling down is just as important as scaling up in the transformation of global food systems
Source: NextBillion (8 Feb 2023)
Efforts to transform global food systems typically focus on introducing/scaling new innovations/programs. Here we argue for more focus on intentionally scaling down unsustainable farming practices.
Solar powered dryers boost peanut production in Togo
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
The introduction of new technology has enabled farmers in West Africa to improve the quality and minimize losses of a national staple.
Farmers harvested double yield by adopting Wengkhar Hybrid Maize 1 in Bhutan
Nutrition, health and food security
A type of heat- and drought-tolerant maize is improving yields for Bhutanese farmers.
