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India transforms wheat for the world
Climate adaptation and mitigationBuilding on a partnership spanning more than five decades, Indian and CIMMYT wheat scientists, policymakers and farmers forge a transformation path, applying innovations that ensure national food security and resource conservation.
Community Business Facilitator: providing a service to farmers while increasing community access to nutritious food
Gender equality, youth and social inclusionWomen farmers in Nepal are increasing their income and leading positive change in their communities through capacity building programs in mechanization and post-harvest management.
Conservation agriculture helps smallholder farmers to be more resource efficient
Capacity developmentA village in the Indian state of Bihar boasts 100% zero-till technology adoption, helping improve agriculture production and climate change mitigation.
Hard work pays off
Gender equality, youth and social inclusionYoung Nepalese farmers look towards prosperous futures in agriculture.
CIMMYT announces 2030 Strategy
InnovationsCIMMYT recognizes all organizations with a mandate to contribute to the development sector must consider transformations in the underlying systems to create sustainable and equitable interventions.
Country moving forward from wheat importer to self-sufficiency
InnovationsThe release of 31 wheat varieties brings Pakistan closer to self-suffiency in wheat production.
New generation of farmers lead the way in making farming more productive and profitable
Capacity developmentSmallholder farmers increasingly benefit as the younger generation adopts mechanization and sustainable agri-technologies.
A promising partnership
Capacity developmentThe delivery of row seeders from India to Benin demonstrates a new path to sustainable South-South business relationships.
Hot, dry climates call for resilient, high-performing wheat varieties
Climate adaptation and mitigationNew breeding science can fortify wheat against the onslaught of hotter weather, increasing droughts, and evolving and spreading pests and diseases.
Global science partnership promotes climate-smart pathways to address food security and climate crisis
Climate adaptation and mitigationAs rising temperatures and water scarcities threaten food production and affecting global food security and livelihoods since last century, leading research organizations have joined efforts around solutions that can also benefit climate-threatened, staple food farming in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.
The status of women in agri-food systems
Gender equality, youth and social inclusionCIMMYT’s efforts to align with FAO recommendations to strengthen women’s roles in food systems.
Twenty Years of Enriching Diets with Biofortification
Nutrition, health and food security20 years of rigorous scientific research.
A seed systems success story
Environmental health and biodiversityDrought-tolerant maize seed thrives in Zambia through partnerships with the private sector.
One year of Women in Crop Science at CIMMYT
Gender equality, youth and social inclusionFor its first birthday, a co-founder of the Women in Crop Science at CIMMYT, talks about their journey over the past year.
A deceptively simple hack boosts wheat yields in Bihar
Climate adaptation and mitigationA hotter planet was devastating wheat yields in one of India’s poorest but most fertile states. Researchers looked at the agricultural system as a whole to find a promising path forward.