CGIAR
Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) project enters Phase 4.0
Capacity development
A renewed three-and-a-half-year commitment in India to strengthen gains made in mainstreaming innovations and agri-extension research in national systems, with emphasis on institutionalizing research delivery systems and cross-learning opportunities.
Cereal seed systems
Capacity development
Discover how CIMMYT scientists support getting new improved seeds to farmers fields, faster.
CGIAR Initiative: Securing the Food Systems of Asian Mega-Deltas (AMD) for Climate and Livelihood Resilience
Climate adaptation and mitigation
CGIAR Initiative: Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA)
Climate adaptation and mitigation
In Ethiopia, local challenges inform national action for climate-smart agriculture
Climate adaptation and mitigation
There is no universal model for successfully delivering climate-smart agriculture. But the AICCRA experience in Ethiopia shows how engaging changemakers can reveal effective, inclusive, and localized ways to make farming communities more resilient to climate change.
Conservation agriculture practices revive saline and sodic soils
Environmental health and biodiversity
Evidence suggests conservation agriculture can maintain the sustainability of agri-food systems in regions impaired by soil salinity and sodicity.
New CIMMYT maize hybrid available from South Asian Tropical Breeding Program
Innovations
CIMMYT is offering a new improved maize hybrid to partners, to scale up production for farmers in the region.
Earlier wheat planting will boost yields in eastern India
Innovations
Adjusting the sowing dates for wheat in eastern India will increase untapped potential production by 69%, new research shows, helping to ensure food security and farm profitability as the planet warms.
Scientists step up wheat landrace conservation efforts in Afghanistan, Turkey and other countries in the region
Environmental health and biodiversity
In 2009, a team of wheat scientists from CIMMYT, ICARDA, FAO, and national partners set off on a five-year expedition across Central Asia to collect as many landraces as they could find.
Ecological farming a boon for staple crop farmers in Africa, new study finds
Environmental health and biodiversity
Cropping diversity, soil-enriching crops, and adding organic material to soils can boost food-crop yields for farmers who can’t apply fertilizer.
Essential actions to mitigate the food crisis, stabilize supply and transition to greater agrifood system resilience
Nutrition, health and food security
Experts propose short-, medium- and long-term practical actions to respond to the looming global food crisis catalyzed by the Russia-Ukraine war.
China calls on G20 to support CGIAR to boost global food security
Climate adaptation and mitigation
The G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting held on July 7-8 in Bali saw Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, highlight support for CGIAR as part of a proposed cooperation initiative to boost global food security.
Cross-center learning between CIMMYT and WorldFish
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Collaboration between two CGIAR centers emphasizes opportunities for collaboration between agricultural researchers that could prove vital in the fight to establish food security.
