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Breaking Ground: AbduRahman Beshir is revitalizing Pakistan’s maize sector
Nutrition, health and food securityAbduRahman Beshir and his team are developing climate-resilient, biofortified and biotic stress-tolerant maize to enhance the maize seed sector.
Seed certification critical to quality seed production
Capacity developmentTo ensure that quality seed standards are maintained, CIMMYT supports partners such as national agricultural research institutions and seed producers in acquisition and production of pure early generation seed.
Breaking Ground: Crop simulation models help Balwinder Singh predict future challenges
InnovationsBalwinder Singh uses crop simulation models to help smallholder farmers in South Asia prepare for future climates and unexpected challenges.
Q+A: Women in Triticum award provides development opportunities and support networks for women in agriculture
Capacity developmentMargaret Krause, a doctoral candidate in Plant Breeding at Cornell University, became interested in science and nature at an early age.
Breaking Ground: Vijay Chaikam develops doubled haploid lines to accelerate maize breeding
InnovationsVijay Chaikam works as a scientist and manager at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center doubled haploid facility in Kiboko, Kenya.
Scaling up research for impact
Capacity developmentAs part of a German Development Cooperation effort to aid the scaling up of agricultural innovations, Lennart Woltering recently joined CIMMYT’s Sustainable Intensification Program.
Breaking Ground: Hands on experience gives Carolina Camacho insight into farming best practices
InnovationsTending her own crops gives Carolina Camacho insights into the challenges farmers face that she could never have learned in a classroom.
Breaking Ground: David Guerena transfers world-class science to smallholder farmers
Climate adaptation and mitigationDavid Guerena recently joined CIMMYT as soil scientist-systems agronomist, he leads soils/nutrient management activities in Nepal.
Closing the circle: Kanwarpal Dhugga works at CIMMYT
InnovationsGrowing up on a small farm in India’s northwest Punjab state, Kanwarpal Dhugga was a young boy when the first Green Revolution wheat varieties arrived in his village.
Breaking Ground: Akhter Ali helps transform agriculture sector in Pakistan
Capacity developmentAkhter Ali always knew he wanted to have an impact on the livelihoods of farmers in Pakistan.
Small machinery provides affordable options for women farmers in Nepal
Gender equality, youth and social inclusionSmall-scale mechanization is becoming more important on farms in Nepal as young people, particularly men, migrate away from rural areas in large numbers.
Breaking Ground: Xuecai Zhang prepares future generation of crop breeders
InnovationsXuecai Zhang wants to merge traditional maize breeding methods with new software and other tools to help improve farmers’ yields faster than ever.
Stronger African seed sector to benefit smallholder farmers and economy
Nutrition, health and food securityDespite its large-scale impact across Africa, smallholder farming largely remains a low technology, subsistence activity.
Breaking Ground: Monica Mezzalama keeps vital check on seed health and biosafety
Plant pathology expert Monica Mezzalama shares on keeping biosafety and seed health in check at CIMMYT.
Q+A: Scientist Thokozile Ndhlela inspires girls in Africa to embrace agriculture careers
Gender equality, youth and social inclusionCIMMYT maize breeder Thokozile Ndhlela interviewed on career and inspiring girls in Africa to embrace agriculture.