Year: 2023

In the media

tag icon Climate adaptation and mitigation

Source: Technology Times (18 May 2023)

Rising temperatures, droughts, and extreme weather events affect crop yield, quality, and nutritional value. To dive into the challenges posed by climate change, scientists and farmers are collaborating to create a “Wheat Revolution.”

News

tag icon Climate adaptation and mitigation

CIMMYT participates in Climate Summit with an eye towards accelerating innovations.

In the media

tag icon Environmental health and biodiversity

Source: Smart Farmer Africa (16 May 2023)

Plant health experts met on May 12, International Day of Plant Health, to discuss and address the challenges facing plant health management capacity in the Global South.

Features

tag icon Capacity development

The delivery of row seeders from India to Benin demonstrates a new path to sustainable South-South business relationships.

In the media

tag icon Nutrition, health and food security

Source: The Nairobi Law Monthly (9 May 2023)

Civil society actors are stepping up to strengthen Africa’s potential to prevent greater food insecurity and regional instability caused by climate impacts.

News

tag icon Climate adaptation and mitigation

Smart smallholder fertilizer management practices to address food security and climate change.

Press releases

tag icon Gender equality, youth and social inclusion

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.

In the media

tag icon Nutrition, health and food security

Source: The EastAfrican (3 May 2023)

CIMMYT commits to scaling-up millet cultivation and further promoting technologies that encourage millet consumption and other dryland cereal crops.

In the media

tag icon Climate adaptation and mitigation

Source: Mexico Business News (9 May 2023)

Bram Govaerts, CIMMYT Director General, addresses the root causes of forced migrations with five adaptation measures that public and private actors can adopt to strengthen agri-food systems and protect vulnerable regions from climate shocks.

Features

tag icon Climate adaptation and mitigation

New breeding science can fortify wheat against the onslaught of hotter weather, increasing droughts, and evolving and spreading pests and diseases.

In the media

tag icon Nutrition, health and food security

Source: Seed Quest (3 May 2023)

The TELA maize project has protected smallholder farmers from Stem-borer and Fall Armyworm through resistant maize varieties. As part of the project’s fifth year, the AATF has restated its commitment to developing transgenic drought-tolerant and insect-protected maize varieties.

In the media

tag icon Climate adaptation and mitigation

Source: Sunday News (23 Apr 2023)

With intensifying climate change, farmers in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe adopt innovative methods for resilient and productive livestock as part of the Livestock Production Systems in Zimbabwe (LIPS-ZIM) project.

In the media

tag icon Capacity development

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.

Features

tag icon Climate adaptation and mitigation

As rising temperatures and water scarcities threaten food production and affecting global food security and livelihoods since last century, leading research organizations have joined efforts around solutions that can also benefit climate-threatened, staple food farming in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.

Features

tag icon Gender equality, youth and social inclusion

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