News
Australian visit to CIMMYT-Turkey strengthens decades-long collaboration
Capacity development
The CIMMYT Australia ICARDA Germplasm Evaluation Project (CAIGE) organized a visit for Australian breeders to Turkey during 19 April-3 May. Participants learned about the germplasm evaluation and selection activities by the International Winter Wheat Improvement Program (IWWIP, a joint enterprise of CIMMYT and the Government of Turkey), the CIMMYT-Turkey Soil Borne Pathogen (SBP) program and the Regional Rust Research Center.
CSISA mechanization meets farmers’ needs in Bihar, India
Capacity development
The CSISA project team is improving existing designs of harvest and post-harvest machinery to meet local needs.
Well-positioned for next phase, CSISA India plans for monsoon cropping season
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Project team gathers in Kathmandu to plan for the 2015 monsoon cropping season.
Maize protects Colombian coffee from climate change
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Preliminary results have shown that a maize-coffee cropping system acts like a huge atmospheric carbon sink, capturing up to 60 times more carbon than a coffee-bean system during one cycle of the associated temporary bean crop. In addition, maize creates a more adequate microclimate for coffee’s growth and development because it reduces air temperature, helps to maintain soil moisture and decreases daytime-nighttime soil temperature fluctuations. This has a buffer effect that benefits soil biochemical processes and improves crop productivity.
SUPER WOMAN: Asriani Anie Annisa Hasan protects local Indonesian maize varieties
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
SUPER WOMAN: Candice Gardner plays major role in preserving U.S. maize diversity
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
SUPER WOMAN: Jennifer Brito’s “tortillas verdes” improve maize nutritional value
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
SUPER WOMAN: Chhavi Tiwari aids women farmers with zinc-fortified wheat
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
SUPER WOMAN: Julie King tames wild relatives of wheat, improving resilience
Climate adaptation and mitigation
SUPER WOMAN: Evangelina Villegas developed transformative quality-protein maize
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
SUPER WOMAN: Paula Kantor engages men to support gender progress
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
SUPER WOMAN: Jeanie Borlaug Laube unites global wheat community
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Super woman: Rosalind Morris an “outstanding wheat cytogeneticist”
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
She conducted genetic studies with worldwide importance in explaining wheat genetics.
SUPER WOMAN: Nobel winner Barbara McClintock discovered “jumping genes”
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
SUPER WOMAN: Julie Miller Jones dispels myths that wheat protein is unhealthy
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
A nutritionist outspoken about the negative consequences of gluten-free diets, shares her views.
