Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

The Sustainable Development Goals or Global Goals are a collection of 17 interlinked goals designed to be a “blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all”. The SDGs were set in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly and are intended to be achieved by the year 2030.
https://sdgs.un.org/goals

Capacity development
Publications

CIMMYT research helps meet Sustainable Development Goals through engagement of scientists and stakeholders in participatory action research.

Innovations

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Environmental health and biodiversity

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Nutrition, health and food security
News

CIMMYT offers proven science and formidable partnerships to help achieve the recently stated G7 ambitions for global food security and nutrition.

Nutrition, health and food security
Features

CIMMYT and CGIAR contributions to the SDGs highlighted in new campaign.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
Blogs

Understanding the relationship between climate change and plant health is key to conserving biodiversity and boosting food production today and for future generations.

Innovations
News

CIMMYT’s MasAgro project acknowledged for promoting sustainable agriculture in new report by The Economist Intelligence Unit.

Gender equality, youth and social inclusion

Martin Kropff sits down with scientists involved in maize breeding, wheat quality and crop data to discuss their successes and passion behind the work that they do to help CIMMYT and CGIAR reach the Sustainable Development Goals.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
Blogs

Don’t underestimate the crucial role nitrogen plays in cereal-based agroecosystems and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
News

An expansive new review seeks out the key drivers of climate-resilient crop adoption to mobilize decades of scientific and development research towards the eradication of hunger by 2030.

Nutrition, health and food security
News

CIMMYT representatives discuss the impact of the pandemic on Mexico and why CIMMYT works towards more resilient agri-food systems with healthier and more prosperous people.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
In the media

Source: The Hindu Business Line (17 Apr 2020)

New study in India reports conservation agriculture increases crop yield and income, reduces the use of natural resources, and offers climate benefits.

Innovations
Publications

Paper describes mindset and skills required to go from pilot project to sustainable systemic change at scale.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
News

EAT-Lancet Commission offers a roadmap for a global food system that provides a healthy, sustainable diet for the world’s 10 billion people by 2050.