The growing climate crisis demands more attention to address increasingly fragile food systems and drive their transformation. CGIAR will lead a delegation to UNFCCC SB58 to advocate the recognition of the significance of food systems in the international discourse surrounding climate change. The objective is to enable climate resource mitigation to bolster smallholder resilience and […]
CIMMYT will participate at the 8th Africa Agribusiness and Science Week (AASW) on June 5 - 8, in Durban, South Africa, under the theme 'Linking Agri-Business with Science and Innovation for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems'. This AASW is especially significant because it will resume AASW after a long pause since 2016. The 8th […]
Background Southern Africa AID-I Rapid Delivery Hub is working with last-mile delivery partners to contribute to building resilience among smallholder farmers. Enhanced resilience ensures smallholder farmers are more food secure by selecting, producing, and utilizing their agrarian produce more sustainably. After harvest, smallholder farmers suffer substantial food losses that threaten food and nutrition security, […]
The CGIAR (led by the CGIAR Climate Impact Platform) and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) are jointly hosting a webinar to share the latest findings from the AR6 cycle regarding agrifood systems.
Food insecurity is a growing global concern given economic stagnation and regional conflict. Agricultural biology (AgBio) researchers face the immense task of navigating complex plant genomes and large amounts of animals in breeding programs. In this GEN Live, presenters will discuss how genomes and data science are improving agriculture, breeding, and population management processes. Register […]
The International Society for Plant Pathology is hosting the 12th International Congress of Plant Pathology (ICPP) in Lyon, France, from August 20 - 25, 2023. ICPP 2023 will bring together plant health researchers and experts under the theme: One Health for all plants, crops and trees, to share latest research findings and discuss current and […]
The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA AfriCenter) and partners present the 5th edition of the Africa Biennial Biosciences Communication (ABBC 2023) Symposium, to be held on August 22-25, 2023, in-person, in Nairobi Kenya. ABBC2023 will provide a platform to showcase innovations, share lessons, forge partnerships, and highlight opportunities for Africa to […]
The United Nations (UN) declared 2023 as the International Year of Millets. As a crop indigenous to Africa and Asia, millets, along with other dryland cereals, have the potential to enhance global food security by making nutritious and affordable diets more accessible to families. CIMMYT is scaling-up millet cultivation amid a rapidly changing global climate, […]
The Africa Food Systems Forum 2023 Summit will take place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from September 5-8, 2023, under the theme: "Recover, Regenerate, Act: Africa’s Solutions to Food Systems Transformation." Recover, Regenerate, Act focuses on recovering food systems after multiple shocks with youth and women at the center; regenerating food systems by restoring natural capital through […]
The Scaling Scan is a user-friendly tool to explore what is required to scale innovation in a specific context, the implications this has for project management and collaborations, and the potential trade-offs on the environment as well as social dynamics. It is based on ten ingredients that represent the enabling environment for an innovation and […]
The International Wheat Yield Partnership (IWYP) represents an innovative global collaboration between public and private research organizations to increase funding and advocacy for wheat research. IWYP aims to raise wheat's genetic yield potential by 50% in the next 20 years. From September 27-28, 2023, IWYP will hold its 7th program conference under the theme, "Evaluating […]
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is organizing the first-ever Global Conference on Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization (GAMC), under the theme of “Efficiency, Inclusiveness and Resilience” from September 27-29, 2023. The GAMC will discuss context-specific interventions that enable the optimization of agricultural mechanization efficiencies combined with the minimization of the deleterious effects of […]
The Middle East and North Africa Climate Week (MENACW) will take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from October 8-12, 2023, hosted by the government of Saudi Arabia. The event is part of a series of Regional Climate Weeks leading up to COP28 in Dubai. Under the theme, "Forging Pathways for Sustainable and Resilient Buildings in […]
"Molecular Plant", a plant health journal, will host an online seminar on October 17-18, 2023. The two-session seminar will bring together researchers to discuss food security, climate change and plant health. Kevin Pixley, director of the Dryland Crops and Global Wheat programs at CIMMYT, will present a recently published paper, "Redesigning crop varieties to win […]
The African Plant Breeders Association (APBA) Conference was initiated in 2019 to disseminate the latest knowledge and achievements in the field of agriculture, to enhance research and development (R&D) for sustainable agriculture production systems in Africa. CIMMYT researchers will join plant breeders, students, private companies and national agriculture policymakers to share research advancements in line […]
