Year: 2022

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As Director General of the International Potato Center (CIP) and as CGIAR’s Global Director for Genetic Innovation, Wells helped improve the health and livelihoods of millions of people.

Research and Post-Harvest Platforms Coordinator - Pacifico Sur, Golfo Centro Hub
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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’.

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New research explores how the adoption of Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices can help address environmental issues, reduce out-migration, and ensure household food security.

Explainers

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Over millennia, natural selection and humans have systematically adapted the plant species that provide food and other vital products, changing their physical and genetic makeup for enhanced productivity, nutrition and resilience. Plant breeders apply science to continue improving crop varieties, making them more productive and better adapted to climate extremes, insects, drought and diseases.

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Research on gender and maize looks to move beyond trait preferences at seed demand more broadly.

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Sustainable Agrifood Systems Program Director (SAS)
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Contributions reflect the breadth of perspectives and expertise within CGIAR and beyond, calling for more demand-oriented variety development and seed delivery.

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Projects will focus on developing new breeding technologies, screening tools and novel traits to improve wheat in the face of heat and drought.

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CIMMYT is offering a new set of improved maize hybrids to partners, to scale up production for farmers in the region.

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Sanjaya Rajaram, former CIMMYT Wheat Program Director, has been recognized with the Padma Bhushan Award for his contributions to wheat improvement worldwide.

Publications

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Researchers evaluate the use of genomic selection in wheat breeding against deadly fungal disease.