CIMMYT in the news

Re-imagining heat tolerance traits in wheat

Mexico safeguards agriculture against invasive pests, deseases

Mexico, with CIMMYT, blocked 1,463 risky shipments, protecting against 258 pests and highlighting climate change's food security impact.

Successful surveillance results in early first detection of Ug99 in South Asia

The early detection of the Ug99 wheat stem rust strain TTKTT in Nepal exemplifies the efficacy of global wheat disease...

Crop technology from CGIAR, including CIMMYT seed varieties, contributes US $47 billion each year to the global economy according to fresh analysis of six decades’ worth of data

A study in World Development reveals that CGIAR's crop technologies, including significant contributions from CIMMYT, generate $47 billion annually in...