research

Climate adaptation and mitigation
Press releases

HeDWIC and FFAR awarded grants to five wheat research projects in 2022 to protect the crop from climate change and other threats.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
Publications

Researchers provide data-driven approach to systematically analyze the production and diffusion of knowledge on food systems and climate change.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
In the media

Source: VoxDev (5 Nov 2022)

Paswel Marenya, Adoption and Impact Assessment Economist at CIMMYT, explains on a podcast how bundling genetic and financial technologies can make small-scale agriculture more resilient and productive.

Nutrition, health and food security
Publications

After first being cultivated more than 9,000 years ago, research shows that maize not only plays an essential role in global agrifood systems today but has a strongly increasing demand.

Nutrition, health and food security
Features

Senior government representatives from across South Asia join forces to consolidate food security in the region.

Nutrition, health and food security
In the media

Source: MarketWatch (23 Sep 2022)

Models of funding for agricultural research and development (R&D) need to adapt in order for the world to meet current challenges to agrifood systems.

Capacity development
Features

New manual helps standardize field trial data collection across Afghanistan.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
Publications

Climate-food systems research at CIMMYT is informing the decisions of key actors from the scientific, development, and public policy communities.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
News

Collaboration between two CGIAR centers emphasizes opportunities for collaboration between agricultural researchers that could prove vital in the fight to establish food security.

Nutrition, health and food security
News

CGIAR Initiative will put nutrition first, to increase access to sustainable healthy diets, and will work with partners across the production-to-consumption spectrum.

Innovations
Press releases

Researchers build on existing source-and-sink model to map complex interaction of traits that determine wheat yield throughout its growth cycle, as a guide for breeding and future research.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
News

At lectures at Cornell University, CIMMYT director general calls for quick united action to avert the unfolding food security crisis.

Innovations
Press releases

Scientists find novel way to combine two species of grass-like plants including banana, rice and wheat, that allows disease resistance and other beneficial characteristics to be added to the plants.

Nutrition, health and food security
Features

New research uncovers long-term impacts of Green Revolution era productivity, points out lessons for today.

Capacity development
News

Researchers listed among world’s most influential scholars, based on citations.