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Can maize help farmers in Odisha, India, cope with climate change?
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Increasing drought and low rainfall are leading many rice farmers in India’s plateau region of Odisha to start cultivating a crop that requires less water, has lower input costs and earns farmers greater profit – maize.
Thirty years of supporting maize farmers in southern Africa
Nutrition, health and food security
CIMMYT’s Southern Africa Regional Office celebrates three decades of developing new maize varieties for farmers across the region.
Mobilizing gene bank biodiversity in the fight against climate change
Climate adaptation and mitigation
CIMMYT’s germplasm bank holds untapped genetic information that could lead to climate resilient wheat varieties, according to a new study.
Climate change’s surprising opportunity for East African maize farmers
Climate adaptation and mitigation
With the right varieties, future maize yields in East Africa’s highlands could soar as temperatures increase.
Modeling Africa’s agricultural future
Capacity development
CIMMYT held its second training workshop on “Crop Modeling under Uncertain Climate,” from 7-11 December 2015 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Conservation agriculture expert at Oxford Farming Conference
Innovations
Bram Govaerts, strategic leader for Sustainable Intensification in Latin America and Latin America representative at CIMMYT makes keynote speech at Oxford Farming Conference.
CIMMYT scientist receives award from China for wheat research
Nutrition, health and food security
Top wheat scientists from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and other research institutions are the recipients of a prestigious award from China’s State Council.
Cereal systems initiative speeds growth of mechanized technologies in India, report shows
Nutrition, health and food security
Major impacts of the Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia program include success in increasing access to and affordability of modern farming technologies for smallholder farmers across India, according to a new report.
From east Asia to south Asia, via Mexico: how one gene changed the course of history
Nutrition, health and food security
The story of how Japanese wheat variety Norin 10 saved millions from starvation and revolutionized the world of wheat.
CIMMYT marks 50 years of innovation in agricultural science for development
Innovations
CIMMYT will celebrate its 50th anniversary during a three-day event from September 27 to 29, 2016, at headquarters in El Batán, near México City.
Wheat scientists eye USDA $3.4 million in new funds to boost yields
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Scientists involved in a major global initiative aimed at increasing wheat yields as much as 60 percent by 2050 get a boost from U.S. government announcement of new research funds.
CIMMYT upgrades Pakistan’s national germplasm collection and distribution facility
Nutrition, health and food security