International gathering highlights cutting edge efforts to improve yields, nutrition, and climate change resilience of a globally vital staple food.

In demonstration plots in Kenya, smallholder farmers evaluate and rank maize varieties according to their preferred traits — a feedback that is crucial to CIMMYT’s maize breeding work.

The Nepal Seed and Fertilizer (NSAF) project is expanding its support to include finance, working with commercial banks to develop and expand access to innovative financial products for seed companies.

Mutenje opens dialogue with farmers to design new interventions that target farmers’ needs and achieve positive impact.

In Bangladesh, a newly available device takes the hassle out of starting the engine of two-wheel tractors, particularly for women entrepreneurs.

Farmers boost their climate resilience and make money as they phase out a 25-year-old maize variety and replace it with drought-tolerant BH661 seeds.

ProMaíz Nativo will promote small-scale landrace maize farmers through certification and fair market access.

Policies and technologies key to sustainable development in India’s breadbasket.

Multispectral and thermal images taken by cameras on unmanned aerial vehicles are helping researchers to monitor the resistance of maize to tar spot complex and other foliar diseases.

An economist, an agronomist and a plant biologist discuss how to mix markets, research and nutrition for optimal health and sustainability.

As processed food products gain popularity in Mexico City, researchers are keen to understand variation in access to healthier maize- and wheat-based foods across differences in purchasing power.

How can space technology help improve maize and wheat production? CIMMYT joined a group of international data users in a recent project to find out.

Briquetted urea and polymer-coated urea more efficient as maize fertilizers than regular urea, researchers in Nepal find.

How green manure and conservation agriculture are transforming the lives of farmers in eastern Zimbabwe.

Agriculture leaders of eastern and southern Africa encourage wider adoption of conservation agriculture for the benefit of farmers, consumers and the environment.