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The many colors of maize, the material of life
Environmental health and biodiversityThe use of corn husk as veneer has helped a town to preserve maize biodiversity, protect the environment and reduce migration.
Farm mechanization under COVID-19
InnovationsAs the current pandemic and restrictions create labor constraints, CIMMYT experts discuss the role scale-appropriate farm machinery can play in addressing them.
Breaking Ground: Yoseph Beyene breeds desirable maize varieties for smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa
InnovationsCIMMYT breeder applies new tools and technologies to accelerate genetic gains, make breeding more efficient, and keep up with the changing dynamics of biotic and abiotic stresses.
Battling devastating viral diseases, also in plants
Nutrition, health and food securityMaize lethal necrosis has taught us that intensive efforts to keep human and plant diseases at bay need to continue beyond the COVID-19 crisis.
This little seed went to market
Capacity developmentSeed companies in Malawi share how they chose their flagship varieties and got them onto the commercial market.
Fall armyworm survey marks CIMMYT’s first research project in Laos
Nutrition, health and food securityHot on the trail of fall armyworm, CIMMYT builds local research partnerships in Southeast Asia.
Breaking Ground: Maria Itria Ibba and the lab that bakes bread
InnovationsCIMMYT scientist helps breeders meet complex and stringent market demands for high-quality wheat.
In the best possible taste
Nutrition, health and food securityResearchers in Kenya and Uganda are incorporating sensory preferences like taste, smell or texture into maize breeding.
Out of the classroom and into the field
Capacity developmentMalawian smallholders tackle challenges together using the farmer field school approach.
Blast and rust forecast
Climate adaptation and mitigationNew project to deliver wheat disease warnings directly to farmers’ phones in Bangladesh and Nepal.
Breaking Ground: Sylvanus Odjo finds the right technology for each farmer
InnovationsCIMMYT postharvest specialist tests drying and storage technologies to help reduce grain losses.
Safeguarding biodiversity is essential to prevent the next COVID-19
Environmental health and biodiversityExperts share their insights on the link between biodiversity loss and emerging infectious diseases.
Collective efforts to fight fall armyworm in Nepal
Capacity developmentStakeholders work together to strengthen systems for detecting, mitigating and managing the invasion of the destructive pest.
Crossing boundaries
Nutrition, health and food securityLooking at wheat diseases in times of the COVID-19 crisis.
Seeing is believing
Climate adaptation and mitigationAt demonstration farms, Kenyan farmers discover the stress-tolerant maize varieties they were looking for.