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MARPLE team recognized for international impact
Innovations
Research team behind revolutionary field test for wheat disease wins prestigious BBSRC prize.
Growing need for food is reason for more biodiversity
Environmental health and biodiversity
A recent study in Ethiopia has concluded that encouraging biodiversity on and around agricultural land likely increases its productivity.
Reflections on the global impact of biofortification
Nutrition, health and food security
There are now 290 new varieties of 12 biofortified crops – including maize, wheat and potatoes – being grown in 60 countries, reaching an estimated 10 million farming households.
Timothy J. Krupnik
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Young women scientists who will galvanize global wheat research
Capacity development
Winners of the Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum (WIT) Early Career Award joined an on-going wheat research training course organized by CIMMYT.
Ethiopian farmers profit from scaled-up, fast-track production of disease resistant wheat seed
Capacity development
More than 75,000 small-scale wheat farmers in Ethiopia’s 4 major wheat-growing regions gain access to a vital asset—over 400 tons of seed of new, disease resistant wheat varieties.Â
First blast resistant, biofortified wheat variety released in Bangladesh
Innovations
The first blast resistant wheat variety has been released in Bangladesh.
New initiative strengthens agricultural drought monitoring in Bangladesh
Climate adaptation and mitigation
As Bangladesh faces an extensive drought for the second year in a row, partnerships are working to strengthen drought monitoring programs to help farmers.
Surveillance training to control wheat blast in Bangladesh
Capacity development
40 wheat pathologists, breeders and agronomists gathered to combat wheat blast at the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) at Gazipur, Bangladesh.
