apps & digital tools

Features

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New project to deliver wheat disease warnings directly to farmers’ phones in Bangladesh and Nepal.

Publications

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Researchers discuss how phenotyping can assist breeding and make the case for investing in new methodologies.

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Web app helps extension agents and farmers monitor the spread of fall armyworm.

Infographics

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Modern phenotyping tools are crucial for crop improvement and breeders can profit much more from them.

News

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Piloting the system in will begin in 2020, with more advanced functions to follow in the next three years.

Features

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The COMPASS smartphone phone app uses data from farmers and from satellites to provide precise crop management advice.

News

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Experts work together at hackathon to develop Enterprise Breeding System that can serve CGIAR organizations and national agricultural research programs.

Blogs

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Experts are developing data and dashboards to advise policymakers about the cost and feasibility of liming to increase maize productivity.

News

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CIMMYT’s work featured on the Counting on the World to Act report, produced by SDSN and TReNDS.

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New leaflet highlights digital innovations for Africa as researchers share insights at the African Green Revolution Forum 2019.

In the media

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Source: World Grain (13 Aug 2019)

MARPLE diagnostic platform significantly reduces the time to identify strains, which previously took months.

Videos

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The mobile kit will allow Ethiopia to quickly identify wheat rust strains in 48 hours, instead of sending samples to labs abroad.

Features

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Researchers are using data and tools to produce information that can help farmers, research institutions and governments take better decisions on agronomic practices and investments.

Features

tag icon Environmental health and biodiversity

With so much germplasm to categorize, what’s the best way to label them? Seeds of Discovery is working on the answer.

News

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These technologies, known as high-throughput phenotyping platforms, replace lengthy paper-based visual observations of crop trials.