Maize

In the media

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Source: Milenio (29 Mar 2021)

Through the Sustainable Wheat and Sustainable Maize projects, Bimbo strives to ensure the sustainability of Mexico’s agricultural sector, benefitting over 940 smallholder farmers through yield enhancement and cost reduction strategies.

Features

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CGIAR webinar examined the technological, sustainability and social implications of integrated approaches.

Features

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CIMMYT partner seed company supports smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa with stress-tolerant seed against biotic and abiotic stresses.

Explainers

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Water, heat and lime transform grain in a traditional Central American maize processing method.

News

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Genomic selection breeding approach paves the way to better maize and wheat in farmers’ fields faster.

News

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One of CIMMYT and CGIAR’s biggest supporters, he sets out on a virtual book tour to spark collaborative action toward avoiding a climate disaster and calls for innovations in almost everything that we do.

Publications

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CIMMYT researchers outline the potential opportunities and key challenges of doubled haploid line development in maize.

Press releases

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As partners come together as One CGIAR to enact a bold climate-centered strategy, projects like CIMMYT and IITA’s decades-long work on climate-smart maize can help show the way forward.

Features

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A ten-year partnership led by CIMMYT and IITA tackles climate-induced risks in maize production, developing and deploying new climate-adaptive varieties benefiting over 8 million households in sub-Saharan Africa.

In the media

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Source: IPS News (17 Feb 2021)

In an op-ed, Martin Kropff, Director General of CIMMYT, discusses how higher-yielding, stress-tolerant maize varieties can not only help smallholders combat climatic variabilities and diseases, but also effectively diversify their farms.

News

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New study in the Western Highlands of Guatemala confirms relation between milpa intercropping diversity and nutritional capacity.

Features

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On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, CGIAR and CIMMYT scientists share their career journeys.

News

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CIMMYT is offering a new set of improved maize hybrids to partners, to scale up production for farmers in these areas.

Publications

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The results of this study will allow breeders to optimize dual purpose maize varieties to sustainably feed people and their livestock.