Blogs
Recent activities and accomplishments of the Agricultural Innovation Project (AIP) for Pakistan
Capacity development
The Agricultural Innovation Project (AIP) for Pakistan, led by CIMMYT and funded by USAID, has accomplished a great deal since its inception in March 2013. Among this year’s most notable AIP achievements by partner institutions were numerous training sessions and workshops, important vaccine developments, progress in baseline surveys and advances in seed improvement and distribution.
Wheat is not a “rich man’s crop”
Nutrition, health and food security
Wheat productivity must first increase in developing countries, where yield gaps continue to be unacceptably high.
Heat stress-resilient maize hybrids for Asian farmers
Climate adaptation and mitigation
The “2nd Annual Progress Review and Planning Meeting for the HTMA Project” was held 22-23 July at UAS, Raichur in Karnataka, India. To take advantage of the presence of renowned scientists at this newly established agricultural university, the inaugural session of the meeting was organized as a special seminar on “Global initiatives on climate resilient crops.”
CIMMYT, Limagrain and Seed Co Limited teams discuss partnership for tackling maize lethal necrosis
Nutrition, health and food security
Research managers and scientists from CIMMYT, Limagrain and Seed Co Limited held a discussion at CIMMYT-Nairobi on 4 July to forge a partnership to effectively tackle the maize lethal necrosis (MLN) disease in Africa.
Partnership on maize lethal necrosis in Africa makes significant progress
Nutrition, health and food security
Partners of the Maize Lethal Necrosis (MLN) project in Africa, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA), came together to review and discuss the progress and next steps for the project at a workshop on 14-15 May.
When rural farmers are given a voice: successful farmers share their experience with sustainable intensification
Capacity development
When traveling from Chimoio to Tete along one of the main roads in central Mozambique, one inevitably passes through Malomue, a small rural village in Báruè District. Since 2008, conservation agriculture (CA) technologies and improved drought-tolerant maize varieties have been promoted to farmers through various donor-funded projects, including a USAID-funded Feed the Future initiative.
CCAFS study finds limited potential of no-till agriculture for climate change mitigation
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Precision farming down under at the National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture
Capacity development
CIMMYT scientists discuss the complementary nature of the two organizations in the areas of precision agriculture, field monitoring, smart technologies and remote sensing.
Gupta Is new Director General of Borlaug Institute for South Asia
Capacity development
Hari S. Gupta was selected as the second Director General (DG) of the Borlaug Institute for South Asia (BISA) in India and assumed his new position on August 7th.
