John Bakum

John Bakum
Environmental health and biodiversity
News

Securing biological diversity is a key mission for both organizations.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
News

CIMMYT participates in Climate Summit with an eye towards accelerating innovations.

Capacity development
Features

The delivery of row seeders from India to Benin demonstrates a new path to sustainable South-South business relationships.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
News

Smart smallholder fertilizer management practices to address food security and climate change.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
News

CIMMYT scientists and their Chinese counterparts discuss best methods for protecting food crop production from climate change.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
Publications

CIMMYT researchers comb through data to enumerate the benefits, and costs, of specific climate mitigation initiatives in the AFOLU sector of Mexico.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
Features

Climate-resilient soil fertility management by smallholders in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
Features

CIMMYT and ICAR partner to reward Indian farmers for utilizing climate smart agricultural practices.

Nutrition, health and food security
Publications

Genetic gain for yield in CIMMYT varieties distributed in Afghanistan shows an increase over a 14-year period.

Environmental health and biodiversity
News

CIMMYT and EIAR launch working group in Ethiopia to implement IMAGE, a five-year project that will improve seed variety deployment in Africa.

Innovations
News

CIMMYT trains Ethiopian national partners in crop monitoring and yield forecasting as part of AICCRA’s effort to improve climate information services.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
Publications

CIMMYT scientists seek alternatives to synthetic nitrogen using biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) in order to reduce a significant driver of climate change.

Environmental health and biodiversity
Features

Researchers hypothesized that many wild wheat accessions in genebanks feature useful traits that can help diversify breeding programs.

Innovations
News

Researchers found that prediction performance was highest using a multi-trait model.