Blogs
Supporting sustainable and scalable changes in cereal systems in South Asia
Climate adaptation and mitigation
The rates of growth of staple crop yields in South Asia are insufficient to meet the projected demands in the region. With 40 percent of the world’s poor living in South Asia, the area composed of eastern India, Bangladesh and Nepal has the largest concentration of impoverished and food insecure people worldwide.
Kenyan delegation visits CIMMYT for collaboration on nixtamalization
Nutrition, health and food security
New paths ahead for agricultural research
Nutrition, health and food security
It is clear that wherever CIMMYT is involved, we have a valuable and unique contribution to make.
CIMMYT empowers a new generation of maize breeders in Zambia
Capacity development
CIMMYT conducted a training course in Zambia for maize breeders teaching modern maize breeding methods.
Big data for development research
Capacity development
Both private and public sector research organizations must adopt data management strategies that keep up with the advent of big data if we hope to effectively and accurately conduct research.
Yield gap analysis key to meeting future crop demand
Nutrition, health and food security
The Global Yield Gap Atlas (GYGA) can help identify where major crop yields are not increasing fast enough to meet demand on existing farmland, and how farmers might close those gaps.
CIMMYT delegation meets with Turkey’s Minister of Food, Agriculture, and Livestock
Nutrition, health and food security