Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
When it comes to maize variety choices, can farmers have it all?
Varietal trait prioritization is important for balancing commercial realities and farmers’ diverse interests.
Waging war against the fall armyworm
Environmental health and biodiversity
CIMMYT and its partners worldwide continue to work on this complex challenge, so millions of smallholder farmers can protect their crops and feed their families.
Bangladesh could largely reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture while increasing efficiency in production
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Farmers could save costs and contribute to climate mitigation by adopting easy-to-access farming methods like better nitrogen management, intermittent irrigation, and strip tillage, study shows.
Adult plant resistance (APR): the strategy to beat persistent pathogens
Environmental health and biodiversity
CIMMYT’s decision to focus on APR genes versus race-specific genes (R-genes) protects the livelihoods of millions of smallholder wheat farmers throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
A view from above
Innovations
CIMMYT scientists use high-powered drones and space satellite imagery to accelerate crop improvement, fight pests and diseases and help farmers make better crop management decisions.
A challenge solved
Environmental health and biodiversity
Massive study of breeding lines across environments pinpoints genomic regions associated with yield potential and stress-resilience in bread wheat.
Buying into new seed
Climate adaptation and mitigation
A mock shop helps researchers understand how Kenyan farmers choose maize seed when their preferred varieties are out of stock.
Digitization equipment set to accelerate Kenya’s breeding programs
Capacity development
New equipment will speed up and enhance the accuracy of national breeding processes including seed preparation, data collection and inventory management.
Revisiting the inverse size-productivity relationship
Innovations
Study results suggest caution in designing agricultural policies based on evidence derived from inaccurate measurement protocols.
Fighting the stress
Innovations
CIMMYT partner seed company supports smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa with stress-tolerant seed against biotic and abiotic stresses.
Power steering
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Women in Bangladesh start successful businesses using power-tiller-operated seeders.
The transformative value of maize
Capacity development
In India’s state of Odisha, maize farming is lifting up the socioeconomic status of women.
Researchers identify optimal strategy to maximize genomic estimated breeding values
Innovations
Genomic selection breeding approach paves the way to better maize and wheat in farmers’ fields faster.
Bill Gates highlights CIMMYT’s innovation in latest climate book
Climate adaptation and mitigation
One of CIMMYT and CGIAR’s biggest supporters, he sets out on a virtual book tour to spark collaborative action toward avoiding a climate disaster and calls for innovations in almost everything that we do.
Out with the old, in with the new
Innovations
CIMMYT’s tried and tested approaches in varietal turnover and decades of experience in strengthening maize and wheat seed systems have a lot to contribute to CGIAR’s plan of building robust food systems by 2030.