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Bram Govaerts, Leader of CIMMYT’s program on Sustainable Intensification in Latin America, presented at a keynote speech titled “Ending hunger: Can we achieve humanity’s elusive goal by 2050?” at the Oxford Farming Conference.

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CIMMYT’s germplasm bank holds untapped genetic information that could lead to climate resilient wheat varieties, according to a new study.

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Bram Govaerts, strategic leader for Sustainable Intensification in Latin America and Latin America representative at CIMMYT makes keynote speech at Oxford Farming Conference.

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One of the strongest El Niños on record is underway, threatening millions of agricultural livelihoods – and lives.

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As the global community marks World Soil Day, African smallholder farmers are contending with low yields due to low-fertility soils prevalent in most parts of sub-Saharan Africa, affecting food security for 300 million people.

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East and Southern African countries need to formulate and implement appropriate policies to help smallholder farmers access technologies.

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A new award recognizes contributions to the livelihoods and economic empowerment of women made by a former giant in the field of international gender research.

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The Global Yield Gap Atlas (GYGA) can help identify where major crop yields are not increasing fast enough to meet demand on existing farmland, and how farmers might close those gaps.

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Rural women play a critical role in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty, providing innumerable benefits to agricultural systems around the world at all levels of the value chain, but their contributions often go unrecognized.

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Rural women play a critical role in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty.

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Green manures are an affordable and environmentally friendly alternative to fertilizer for many farmers in southern Africa.