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Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
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Gender balance is science is imperative to obtain the best results said CIMMYT scientist Sarah Hearne on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2016.

Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
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Post-doctoral fellow Soumya Gupta is the winner of the inaugural Paula Kantor Award for Excellence in Field Research, the International Centre for Research on Women announces.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
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Increasing drought and low rainfall are leading many rice farmers in India’s plateau region of Odisha to start cultivating a crop that requires less water, has lower input costs and earns farmers greater profit – maize.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
Climate adaptation and mitigation
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Farmer education programs that fail to address traditional gender roles may sideline women, limiting use of conservation agriculture techniques, reducing their ability to fight climate change.

Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
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As the global community marks World Soil Day, African smallholder farmers are contending with low yields due to low-fertility soils prevalent in most parts of sub-Saharan Africa, affecting food security for 300 million people.

Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
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Interview with Clare Stirling, co-author of a new paper, reveals almost no conservation agriculture studies consider gender and gender relations as a factor that may explain low adoption rates.

Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
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A new award recognizes contributions to the livelihoods and economic empowerment of women made by a former giant in the field of international gender research.

Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
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Rural women play a critical role in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty, providing innumerable benefits to agricultural systems around the world at all levels of the value chain, but their contributions often go unrecognized.

Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
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Rural women play a critical role in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty.

Capacity development
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CIMMYT and the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) of South Africa host a five-day gender training workshop in Pretoria, South Africa.

Gender equality, youth and social inclusion

If we are to be truly successful in improving the lives of farmers and consumers in the developing world, we need to base our interventions on the best evidence available.

Capacity development
Capacity development
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The state of Haryana, India’s breadbasket, faces a major challenge due to the excessive use of nitrogen fertilizer (N: P: K = 27.2: 9.8: 1) in agriculture. The overuse of nitrogen fertilizer in the rice-wheat systems of Haryana has led to high production costs, low efficiency, environmental pollution and nitrate contamination of groundwater, which causes blue baby syndrome in young children.