seeds

Features

tag icon Environmental health and biodiversity

Digital platform provides information that will help increase crop productivity and improve soil health.

Features

tag icon Gender equality, youth and social inclusion

CIMMYT system economist explores ways to streamline smallholder farming systems through mechanization, gender equity and conservation agriculture.

In the media

tag icon 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.

Features

tag icon 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.

Blogs

tag icon Capacity development

Precision nutrient management helps women farmers in Nepal increase crop yields and household incomes.

News

tag icon Innovations

Platform in Bihar, India uses data to design interventions to help smallholder farmers.

News

tag icon 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.

In the media

tag icon Climate adaptation and mitigation

Source: India Science Wire (22 Sep 2020)

Approach combines farmers’ knowledge of resilient crops with ‘elite’ varieties identified by scientists.

News

tag icon Innovations

Study shows how the Crop-loss Assessment Monitor could help improve loss assessment and make crop insurance more efficient.

Features

tag icon Nutrition, health and food security

A survey conducted by CIMMYT researchers collected insights from over 200 key value-chain market actors.

Features

tag icon Capacity development

Service provider harvest model could create opportunities for young African entrepreneurs while reducing carbon emissions.

Videos

tag icon Climate adaptation and mitigation

Maize and wheat seeds from all over the world are preserved at the CIMMYT genebank, used to bring new varieties to farmers, and backed up at the Global Seed Vault.

Features

tag icon Capacity development

Malawian smallholders tackle challenges together using the farmer field school approach.

Features

tag icon Capacity development

Stakeholders work together to strengthen systems for detecting, mitigating and managing the invasion of the destructive pest.

News

tag icon Climate adaptation and mitigation

For the first time widespread monitoring examines how farmers are coping with climate stresses.