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Innovations
Press releases

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

Climate adaptation and mitigation

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

Climate adaptation and mitigation
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Features

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.

Innovations
News

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

Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
News

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.

Nutrition, health and food security
Nutrition, health and food security
Blogs

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.

Nutrition, health and food security
Capacity development
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Features

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.

Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Features

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

Innovations
Features

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

Nutrition, health and food security
Features

Despite efforts to develop wheat resistant to stem, stripe and leaf rusts, the diseases will continue to thwart scientists, making ongoing funding vital, a top economist has said.

Capacity development
News

CIMMYT and the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) of South Africa host a five-day gender training workshop in Pretoria, South Africa.