CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture

https://bigdata.cgiar.org/

Climate adaptation and mitigation
Publications

Crop simulation models predict that climate change will lower global wheat production by 2050 in Africa and South Asia, where food security is already threatened.

Capacity development
News

Nepali researchers get trained on rapid diagnostics tool and get ready to monitor yellow rust in the 2022/23 wheat season.

Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Blogs

New metadata schema will make it easier for scientists to find and reuse open-access data.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
Features

Increasingly unpredictable weather poses challenges for breeding widely-adapted wheat lines, but stress tolerance breeding is boosting wheat’s hardiness under rising temperatures.

Innovations
Features

As the world becomes increasingly digital, the international agricultural research-for-development sector needs to keep up.

Capacity development
Videos

Improving global coordination of crop modeling efforts.

Innovations
Features

The testing and learning platform is working to tackle issues from adulterated seeds to crop residue burning.

Innovations
Features

Susanne Köhler discusses how this technology can be used to increase the resilience of individuals, communities and ecosystems.

Innovations
Features

CIMMYT puts forward integrated systems, healthy diets and One CGIAR agronomic innovation at first-ever virtual edition of the African Green Revolution Forum.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
Press releases

CGIAR centers join efforts on agronomy research and innovation initiative to support agricultural productivity growth in the global South.

Innovations
Features

Scientists assess the use of blockchain to track the impact of biofortified seeds.

Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Features

CGIAR socio-economic researchers have developed a standardized set of farm household survey questions to improve dataset comparability over space and time.

Innovations
News

New testing and learning platform aims to build the knowledge base for trust and transparency technologies in food systems.

Innovations
News

Research team behind revolutionary field test for wheat disease wins prestigious BBSRC prize.

Nutrition, health and food security
News

Policy to encourage alternative crops for wheat farmers in South Asia a short-term solution at best, say CIMMYT researchers