Innovations
Working with smallholders to understand their needs and build on their knowledge, CIMMYT brings the right seeds and inputs to local markets, raises awareness of more productive cropping practices, and works to bring local mechanization and irrigation services based on conservation agriculture practices. CIMMYT helps scale up farmers’ own innovations, and embraces remote sensing, mobile phones and other information technology. These interventions are gender-inclusive, to ensure equitable impacts for all.
Let’s make hunger history
Innovations
Winner of the 2018 MAIZE-Asia Youth Innovators Award in the category of “Change Agent” shares her thoughts on tackling hunger.
Breaking Ground: Susanne Dreisigacker knows wheat inside out
Innovations
Dreisigacker works to discover and validate molecular markers, or DNA segments, for traits of interest.
CIMMYT trains early career scientists on wheat rust diagnosis and management
Capacity development
More than 200 scientists have increased their capacity at these annual trainings since CIMMYT started organizing them ten years ago.
To feed the world, take the science to the farmer
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Experts discuss agricultural research and food security at the 2018 Borlaug Dialogue.
CIMMYT launches new podcast, Cobs & Spikes
Innovations
Subscribe on SoundCloud, iTunes, Stitcher and other podcast platforms.
Are advisory apps a solution for collecting Big Data?
Innovations
CIMMYT has been researching the use of mobile apps to provide site-specific agronomic advice to farmers.
Winners of the 2018 MAIZE Youth Innovators Awards – Asia announced
Capacity development
Four awardees are using modern technologies, dedicated to new knowledge and with hopes to improve the world.
