News
CIMMYT and Agricultural Sciences-Bangalore to establish a maize doubled haploid facility in Karnataka, India
Innovations
Source: SeedQuest (20 Mar 2019)
The maize DH facility, funded by the CGIAR Research Program on Maize, has the potential to accelerate maize breeding and hybrid development in Asia.
New publications: Biofortification of maize with provitamin A can reduce aflatoxin load
Nutrition, health and food security
This research is especially significant for countries where the health burdens of exposure to aflatoxin and prevalence of vitamin A deficiency converge with high rates of maize consumption.
Farmers should shift to drought-tolerant crops
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Source: Business Daily (18 Mar 2019)
For the past decade, CIMMYT has invested in breeding and strengthening the adoption of drought tolerant crop varieties across the continent.
Rust resistant wheat variety raising farmers’ productivity
Nutrition, health and food security
Source: Ethiopian Press Agency (16 Mar 2019)
Ethiopia director general Bekele Abeyo describes how rust resistant wheat has ensured food security for farmers and their families and earned better profit from the local market.
Becoming drought resilient: why African farmers must consider drought tolerant crops
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Source: Inter Press Service (15 Mar 2019)
For the past decade, CIMMYT has invested in breeding and strengthening the adoption of drought tolerant crop varieties across the continent.
Exploring young Africans’ role and engagement in the rural economy
Capacity development
How important is farming relative to non-farm activities for the income of young rural Africans?
Sustainable intensification practices build resilience in Bangladesh’s charlands
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
By reducing drudgery, irrigation and costs, conservation agriculture enables the soil of the charlands to produce rice and maize yields consecutively.
Is a world without hunger possible, asks Germany’s minister Gerd Müller during his visit to CIMMYT
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Minister Müller explored the campus and heard about CIMMYT’s latest innovations in maize and wheat research.
Solving the “last mile” challenge of maize seeds
Nutrition, health and food security
Reaching even the most remote corners of Africa, agrodealers give farmers access to agricultural inputs and services.
USAID launches partnership to combat crop-threatening fall armyworm in South Sudan
Nutrition, health and food security
Source: Africa News (13 Mar 2019)
CIMMYT, USAID, FAO, CABI and AgBiTech formed a partnership in South Sudan to combat fall armyworm.
The Molecular Maize Atlas encourages genetic diversity
Environmental health and biodiversity
With so much germplasm to categorize, what’s the best way to label them? Seeds of Discovery is working on the answer.
Support groups open women’s access to farm technologies in northeast India
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Self-help groups in Bihar are putting thousands of rural women in touch with agricultural innovations, benefiting households and the environment.
Digital imaging tools make maize breeding much more efficient
Innovations
These technologies, known as high-throughput phenotyping platforms, replace lengthy paper-based visual observations of crop trials.
Breaking Ground: Rahma Adam unleashes the agricultural productivity of Africa’s women and youth
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
CIMMYT sociologist believes there is one vital resource that remains untapped to increase food security and boost livelihoods.
Preparing for invasive pests before they arrive
Nutrition, health and food security
Source: Undark Magazine (11 Mar 2019)
CIMMYT, USAID-funded Feed the Future and Plant Protection Society Nepal held a preventative workshop in Nepal on fall armyworm.