Blogs
Breaking Ground: Dagne Wegary at a busy intersection on the maize value chain
Nutrition, health and food security
As a maize seed system specialist, Dagne Wegary works at the nexus between breeding science and actual delivery of improved seed to farmers.
New Publications: Better post-harvest storage can raise vitamin A intake 25 percent in Zambia
Nutrition, health and food security
Recent modeling studies in Zambia suggest that provitamin A maize’s impact is being cut short by the low retention of carotenoids during storage and postharvest grain loss.
Zimbabwe steps up food security with vitamin A maize
Nutrition, health and food security
More farmers in Zimbabwe are demanding high-yielding, highly nutritious and drought tolerant provitamin A maize.
Breaking Ground: Mainassara Zaman-Allah uses remote sensing to expedite phenotyping
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Mainassara Zaman-Allah uses new technologies to speed up the collection of plant information for breeding.
New sustainable agriculture initiative targets India’s second most populous state
Climate adaptation and mitigation
A new project is bringing sustainable technologies and practices to one-thousand villages in Maharashtra, India.
Increased investment needed to adapt Africa’s agriculture to climate change
Nutrition, health and food security
Delegates at a conference in June called for a new focus and increase in investment to ensure eastern and southern Africa’s farming systems can withstand the impacts of climate change.
Farmers at center of sustainable agriculture in Kenya
Capacity development
Climate change’s impact in eastern and southern Africa has driven many farmers to seek new planting techniques that maintain or increase crop production, despite fewer resources.
New Publications: Climate change adaptation practices decrease poverty, boost food security
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Farmers in Pakistan that practice climate change adaptation strategies have higher food security levels and are less likely to live in poverty than those that don’t.
CIMMYT sends largest ever seed shipment to revitalize agriculture in Haiti
Nutrition, health and food security
CIMMYT will send 150 tons of renewed, improved maize seed to Haiti, the largest seed shipment to any country in the organization’s history.
Farmers in Pakistan benefit from new zinc-enriched high-yielding wheat
Nutrition, health and food security
Farmers in Pakistan are eagerly adopting a nutrient-enhanced wheat variety offering improved food security, higher incomes, health benefits and a delicious taste.
New planters promote environmentally-friendly farming in Pakistan
Innovations
Farmers and research partners are praising innovative, locally manufactured farm implements that support conservation agriculture in rice-wheat farming rotation in Pakistan.
Seminar seeks to boost wheat production in West and Central Asia
Capacity development
The sixth International Winter Wheat Travelling Seminar was recently held in Krasnodar, Russia, to improve wheat breeding across West and Central Asia.
Breaking Ground: More data on gender roles key for a food secure world, says Anya Umantseva
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Social inequality, including gender discrimination, hinders the potential for economic development, a key focus of the agriculture for development community.
