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Source: Foodtank (16 Jun 2023)

In a new publication in Frontiers in Ecology, Sieg Snapp, Sustainable Agrifood Systems director, encourages researchers to generate findings and knowledge in collaboration with local communities to meet local needs and advance progress around the Sustainable Development Goals.

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The annual award recognizes outstanding achievements and contributions by scientists, engineers, or other professionals in the agricultural, environmental, or food sectors to the advancement of science through communication in public policy fields.

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Source: Global Citizen (21 Apr 2023)

CIMMYT gender research helps the Agrovita program, a collaboration between PepsiCo and Proforest, a UK-based agriculture non-profit, to design and promote gender sensitive training programs for smallholder cacao farmers in Tabasco and Chiapas, Mexico.

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CIMMYT’s efforts to align with FAO recommendations to strengthen women’s roles in food systems.

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Harisankar Nayak’s thesis honored at a ceremony hosted by India’s Vice President

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The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI) is pleased to announce the 2023 Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum (WIT) Early Career and Mentor awardees, recognizing excellence in science and leadership for a wheat-secure future.

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For its first birthday, a co-founder of the Women in Crop Science at CIMMYT, talks about their journey over the past year.

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At CIMMYT, our Women in Crop Science network is working to create a more inclusive internal and external environment. Here’s a glimpse of a day in the life of our team.

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In an interview with Happy Makuru Daudi, she shares her career journey and why groundnut is a ‘woman’s crop’.

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The introduction of new technology has enabled farmers in West Africa to improve the quality and minimize losses of a national staple.

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Source: Gates Notes (31 Jan 2023)

Bill Gates reflects on a recent visit to a Kenyan farm to see firsthand the results of work by CIMMYT and CGIAR.

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Over the past 12 years, the Jeanie Borlaug Laube Women in Triticum award has supported 66 early-career women scientists as they build a stronger, more inclusive community of wheat scholars fighting hunger worldwide.

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New CIMMYT research sheds light on farmer maize preferences in Ethiopia and western Kenya.

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The Global Food Security Forum for Young Scientists, hosted at Huazhong Agricultural University in China and virtually around the world, highlights cutting-edge agricultural research.

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Sieglinde Snapp has contributed her approaches to improving inclusivity in the biosciences.