seeds
Hands-on experience in seed production
Capacity development
Postgraduate students visit a hybrid maize seed company as part of drive to enhance partnerships between Nepal’s agricultural universities and the seed industry.
Breaking Ground: Fatima Camarillo invests in education
Capacity development
Educator and researcher trains partners from around the world in CIMMYT’s unique wheat improvement course.
A challenge solved
Environmental health and biodiversity
Massive study of breeding lines across environments pinpoints genomic regions associated with yield potential and stress-resilience in bread wheat.
Far-reaching impacts
Capacity development
Alumni of CIMMYT’s historic wheat training program reflect on a powerful learning experience.
Nepal launches digital soil map
Environmental health and biodiversity
Digital platform provides information that will help increase crop productivity and improve soil health.
Breaking Ground: Gokul Paudel finds the best on-farm practices for South Asia
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
CIMMYT system economist explores ways to streamline smallholder farming systems through mechanization, gender equity and conservation agriculture.
Climate change adds to woes of lentil farmers in Nepal
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Source: The Third Pole (25 Nov 2020)
Once a world leading lentil producer, Nepal is now having to import them as farmers struggle with low productivity and warmer, wetter weather.
Money-making machines
Capacity development
Small-mechanization pilot initiative signs up 15 service providers to boost incomes and resilience through a lease-to-own business model in Masvingo, Zimbabwe.
Balanced fertilizer application boosts smallholder incomes
Capacity development
Precision nutrient management helps women farmers in Nepal increase crop yields and household incomes.
Creating impact through wider data sharing
Innovations
Platform in Bihar, India uses data to design interventions to help smallholder farmers.
Starting with Seeds
Climate adaptation and mitigation
CIMMYT and partners in sub-Saharan Africa work with seed companies to invest in deployment of climate-resilient and nutritionally enriched maize seed.
‘Seeds for Needs’ approach to develop climate resilient crop varieties
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Source: India Science Wire (22 Sep 2020)
Approach combines farmers’ knowledge of resilient crops with ‘elite’ varieties identified by scientists.
Crop-loss Assessment Monitor: A multi-model and multistage decision support system
Innovations
Study shows how the Crop-loss Assessment Monitor could help improve loss assessment and make crop insurance more efficient.
Gauging the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on farming communities and agribusinesses in Nepal
Nutrition, health and food security
A survey conducted by CIMMYT researchers collected insights from over 200 key value-chain market actors.
Reaping the benefits of innovation
Capacity development
Service provider harvest model could create opportunities for young African entrepreneurs while reducing carbon emissions.