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.
Replacing gender myths and assumptions with knowledge
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.
Value of CGIAR wheat estimated at up to $3.8 billion a year, research shows
Innovations
Wheat bred by the CGIAR consortium of agricultural researchers has a huge global reach.
SIMLESA-Mozambique learns more about conservation agriculture technologies in Brazil
Capacity development
From the eye in the sky to the cell phone in the field: technologies for all
Climate adaptation and mitigation
For many farmers in the developing world, cell phones are the most accessible form of technology, but are only one of many technologies changing agriculture.
Modern conservation agriculture systems presented in CIMMYT-China Science Week
Capacity development
CIMMYT sponsored a workshop in China with international experts presenting the latest innovations in farming systems research.
Livestock key to breaking Zambia’s poverty trap
Innovations
Malende has been a focus of CIMMYT’s major research programs since 2005, where cropping systems based on the practices of conservation agriculture have been introduced.
The gola: storing maize to improve livelihoods in Chuadanga, Bangladesh
Innovations
Farmers in Chuadanga District of Bangladesh have been using a unique local method to store their maize: the gola.
AIP-CIMMYT holds national meeting on conservation agriculture in Pakistan
Innovations
“Cereal system productivity cannot be improved without improving agronomic practices,” declared Shahid Masood, Member of the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) at a two-day AIP-Agronomy national meeting on conservation agriculture held in Islamabad, Pakistan, on 26-27 May 2015. He lauded CIMMYT’s efforts to strengthen conservation agriculture (CA) research and disseminate CA to Pakistan’s farming community and mentioned the importance of public and private partnerships for promoting CA technologies. The meeting was jointly organized by CIMMYT and PARC under USAID’s Agricultural Innovation Program (AIP) for Pakistan.
Creative solutions for Latin American agriculture
Capacity development
Nele Verhulst, Strategic Research Coordinator of the Global Conservation Agriculture Program (GCAP), led CIMMYT’s 21st International Training Course on Conservation Agriculture from 25 May-26 June. A total of 132 people have taken the course since its inception. This year, participating researchers from Guatemala, Peru, Ecuador and Mexico were trained in sustainable technologies and conservation agriculture (CA).
