Blogs
International Whole Grain Day 2020
Celebrating whole grains as an integral part of healthy, sustainable — and delicious — diets.
The Cereal Serial: What are whole grains and why do they matter?
CIMMYT maize and wheat quality experts explain the importance of whole grains for healthy diets.
New publications: Voicing demand for farm power
Study explores how gender norms and intra-household dynamics shape women’s demand articulation for labor-saving technologies.
Balanced fertilizer application boosts smallholder incomes
Precision nutrient management helps women farmers in Nepal increase crop yields and household incomes.
Saving water and time
Drip irrigation technologies are conserving resources and improving farmer resilience in eastern Zimbabwe.
Rust-resistant bread wheat varieties widely adopted in Ethiopia
Study shows investments and innovative policy decisions are increasing farmer incomes and national wheat productivity, with varieties originating from CIMMYT making a significant contribution.
The beginning of a beautiful partnership
Experts discuss solutions to postharvest losses and how agricultural mechanization can benefit rural women in the Global South.
Critical reflections on COVID-19
FAO-led assessment details the pandemic’s impact on agri-food systems in Bangladesh and outlines possible recovery strategies.
Power of data: To enhance food security
Source: The Himalayan Times (6 Nov 2020)
CIMMYT and Nepal’s Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development developed a digitally enabled seed information system so farmers have timely access to quality seed.
Farmers flock towards nutritious, orange maize
A growing number of smallholders in southern Zimbabwe adopt provitamin-A maize after collective learning and knowledge transfer initiative.
A catastrophe avoided
Unprecedented adoption of agricultural technologies wards off negative impacts of COVID-19 in northwestern India.
What can the last 30 years of research tell us?
An expansive new review seeks out the key drivers of climate-resilient crop adoption to mobilize decades of scientific and development research towards the eradication of hunger by 2030.
Digital revolution can transform agri-food systems
As the world becomes increasingly digital, the international agricultural research-for-development sector needs to keep up.
Wheat disease common to South America jumps to Africa
Source: SciDev.Net (3 Nov 2020)
Wheat blast is a serious threat to wheat production and can lead to yield losses of up to 100 percent.
Reaping carbon credits from agriculture
Source: Financial Express (30 Oct 2020)
Setting benchmarks for carbon sequestered or abated through farming and roping in companies to commercialize carbon credits can help agricultural income grow.