CIMMYT
Connect rural areas with digital innovations to unlock climate resilience for hundreds of millions of farmers
Innovations
Jawoo Koo, IFPRI, and Andrea Gardeazabal, CIMMYT, explain how smallholders in Africa, Asia and Latin America will benefit from the CGIAR Initiative for Digital Innovation.
Setting a standard: improving field trial data
Capacity development
New manual helps standardize field trial data collection across Afghanistan.
Galvanizing food systems transformation in South Asia
Nutrition, health and food security
New Initiative builds on CGIARâs collective strengths and brings together stakeholders to address key regional development challenges.
Greenhouse upgrades at BWMRI for wheat blast research
Capacity development
The developments will create capacity for national and international research and improve processes for disease screening in wheat.
New CIMMYT maize hybrid available from South Asian Tropical Breeding Program
Innovations
CIMMYT is offering a new improved maize hybrid to partners, to scale up production for farmers in the region.
More than machines
Innovations
In collaboration with GIZ, CIMMYTâs Scaling Scan is helping Green Innovation Centers in Africa address the sustainability problem.
How bad will we let the food crises get?
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Dr Alison Bentley leads the Global Wheat Program at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and will be addressing the Crawford Fundâs international conference Celebrating Agriculture for Development â Outcomes, Impacts and the Way Ahead this week in Parliament House, Canberra.
Addressing the Global Food Crisis: CIMMYT Experts Weigh In
Nutrition, health and food security
Source: Wilson Center (29 Jul 2022)
On the episode, ECSP Director Lauren Risi and ECSP Advisor Sharon Burke speak with Bram Govaerts, Director General of CIMMYT and his colleague Kai Sonder, head of CIMMYTâs Geographic Information System Unit, about how to address the unfolding food crisis as we simultaneously build food system resilience in the medium and long term.
Worsening food insecurity calls for stress-tolerant seeds
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Source: The Kathmandu Post (6 Aug 2022)
Climate-resilient seeds can help sustain Nepalâs agricultural productivity and crop development, experts say.
Earlier wheat planting will boost yields in eastern India
Innovations
Adjusting the sowing dates for wheat in eastern India will increase untapped potential production by 69%, new research shows, helping to ensure food security and farm profitability as the planet warms.
Novel technology to reduce the complexity of maize seed production and increase maize hybrid yields in farmerâs fields
Capacity development
Collaborative field evaluations reveal promising results for sub-Saharan Africaâs low input maize farming systems and commercial seed production.
Essential actions to mitigate the food crisis, stabilize supply and transition to greater agrifood system resilience
Nutrition, health and food security
Experts propose short-, medium- and long-term practical actions to respond to the looming global food crisis catalyzed by the Russia-Ukraine war.
China calls on G20 to support CGIAR to boost global food security
Climate adaptation and mitigation
The G20 Foreign Ministersâ meeting held on July 7-8 in Bali saw Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister, Wang Yi,âŻhighlight support for CGIAR as part of a proposed cooperation initiative to boost global food security.
Former director general Timothy Reeves included in Queenâs Birthday Honours List
Capacity development
Reeves has been appointed a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia for significant service to sustainable agriculture research and production.
Soil scientists and stakeholders reflect on progress and impacts of CIMMYT-Rwanda partnership for soil health
Environmental health and biodiversity
âStrong partnershipâ highlighted as CIMMYT and the Rwanda Agriculture and Animal Resources Development Board review progress in managing acid soil.