Project will deliver improved, stress resilient, nutritious seed to smallholders in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia.

AGG project will deliver improved, stress resilient, nutritious seed to smallholders in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia.

The new AGG project has a strong focus on more synergistic and supportive partnerships with national programs to help improve the effectiveness of their breeding efforts.

Agriculture in Mexico has not stopped during the COVID-19 pandemic, but has had to reinvent itself.

CIMMYT-developed drought-and high temperature-tolerant maize varieties help strengthen resilience to weather extremes in China.

Study finds that women in India adopt specific strategies to further their interests in the context of wheat-based livelihoods.

Self-Help International is fighting malnutrition with biofortified crops in Nicaragua.

While an estimated 10 percent of India’s 44 million ha of rice is cultivated through direct seeding, the COVID-19 pandemic could lead to an increase in this practice.

CIMMYT scientists perform large genome-wide association study in India, Kenya and Mexico to understand yellow rust resistance in wheat.

CIMMYT research affirms time and cost-saving advantages of sheller for smallholder maize farmers in Kenya.

Opinions differ on if world food production could be improved if annual crops, such as maize, rice, wheat and vegetables, could be turned into perennials.

CIMMYT and University of Cordoba studied 54 kinds of wheat to analyze response to high temperatures.

CIMMYT calls on companies and government to support sustainable and resilient food systems to prevent the COVID-19 health crisis from becoming a food crisis in Mexico.

CIMMYT is part of a global effort to develop stress-resistant crops and partners with companies and farmers for the sustainable production of maize and wheat.

While Bangladesh is at low risk of a large-scale invasion of desert locusts, efforts to curb fall armyworm will help in addressing future pests.