A pledge of $10,000 by international plant breeding company KWS has given a big boost to an online crowdfunding initiative aiming to help maintain the world’s largest maize and wheat germplasm bank.

A CIMMYT project was selected as a key actor in agricultural and rural innovation in Ethiopia by CDAIS.

Despite the large numbers of women working on farms, their voices are not heard by international development policymakers, handicapping global efforts to achieve food security, Catherine Bertini says.

HarvestPlus director Howarth Bouis is one of four winners of the 2016 World Food Prize for research leading to a substantial increase in the availability of nutritious biofortified crops.

Increasing public understanding and creating supportive policies key recommendations at a session on boosting Africa’s use of biotechnology.

Since 2004, conservation agriculture has helped farmers in southern Africa maintain and boost yields, protect the environment and increase profits.

CIMMYT’s Agricultural Innovation Program (AIP) held its annual maize working group meeting on 10-11 May.

Afghan and Indian researchers are collaborating to combat the wheat rust disease Karnal bunt.

Modern nixtamalization technology could increase maize uses and offer Kenyans invaluable benefits.

MasAgro’s annual Pacífico Sur Hub photo contest documents where extension agents work every day, from their point of view.

Before climate change became a hot topic, the U.N. Development Programme provided funding for a team of scientists in Mexico to find a better way to breed resilient maize for farmers in drought-prone tropical areas.