sustainable intensification

Capacity development
Features

Smallholder farmers increasingly benefit as the younger generation adopts mechanization and sustainable agri-technologies.

Capacity development
News

Women researchers from Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala and Peru work alongside each other on innovative project and build bonds in the hope of completing future projects.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
Features

Ravi Ranjan took to farming after the death of his grandfather and, despite his initial apprehension about working in agriculture, has never looked back.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
Publications

Scientists determine nitrogen use could be reduced without impacting rice yields for sustainability of rice production in Northwestern Indo-Gangetic Plains.

Environmental health and biodiversity
Features

The new farming methods can raise harvests, enrich soils, and capture and conserve moisture.

Capacity development
News

CIMMYT experts share latest updates in efforts to achieve feed self-sufficiency and more sustainable agrifood systems in Nepal.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
Features

Faced with dramatic biodiversity loss and a growing population, should farmers “share” or “spare” land? Agricultural scientists weigh in, yielding a new perspective.

Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
News

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we spoke to Pragya Timsina about how women’s participation in agriculture is evolving across the Eastern Gangetic Plains and her findings which will be included in a paper coming out later this year: ‘Necessity as a driver of bending agricultural gender norms in South Asia’.

Capacity development
Features

Scientists from Wageningen University and CIMMYT documents the magnitude, patterns, and drivers of yield gaps in sub-Saharan Africa.