Simon Fonteyne, Miguel Angel Martinez, Abel Saldivia and Nele Verlhust conducted an investigation on conservation agriculture, and found that conservation agriculture under irrigation conditions increases yields and soil organic carbon, even in poor quality soil.
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Nutrition, health and food security
As part of the efforts of the Sustainable Modernization of Traditional Agriculture program aimed at improving food security based on maize landraces in marginal areas of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Villalobos highlights the importance of improving food systems and agriculture to fight violence and forced migration.
Innovations
CIMMYT’s work featured on the Counting on the World to Act report, produced by SDSN and TReNDS.