CGIAR Research Program on Wheat (WHEAT)
Joining advanced science with field-level research and extension in lower- and middle-income countries, the CGIAR Research Program on Wheat (WHEAT) works with public and private organizations worldwide to raise the productivity, production and affordable availability of wheat for 2.5 billion resource-poor producers and consumers who depend on the crop as a staple food.
WHEAT is led by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), with the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) as a primary research partner.
Funding for WHEAT comes from CGIAR and national governments, foundations, development banks and other public and private agencies, in particular the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
New publications: Gender and agricultural innovation in Oromia region, Ethiopia
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Authors examine how smallholders attempt to innovate with improved wheat seed, row planting, and the broad bed maker, introduced through the Ethiopian agricultural extension system.
Assessing the effectiveness of a “wheat holiday” for preventing blast in the lower Gangetic plains
Nutrition, health and food security
Policy to encourage alternative crops for wheat farmers in South Asia a short-term solution at best, say CIMMYT researchers
Smallholder wheat production can cut Africa’s costly grain imports
Nutrition, health and food security
Scientists are working to catalyze local farming and help meet the rapidly rising regional demand wheat.
City dwellers in Africa and Asia increasingly choose wheat, research shows
Nutrition, health and food security
The developing world’s appetite for wheat is growing swiftly, driven in part by rising incomes, rapid urbanization and the expansion of families where both spouses work outside the house.
University of Queensland student researches tan spot resistance in wheat at CIMMYT
Capacity development
Tamaya Peressini’s project aimed to evaluate adult plant resistance to tan spot in wheat.
The saving grace of a hefty investment
Innovations
Young farmer’s investment in a reaper saves him time, money and dignity, while helping others in the community.
Pakistan wheat seed makeover
Nutrition, health and food security
More productive, resilient varieties for thousands of farmers
New publications: Climate change impact and adaptation for wheat protein
Climate adaptation and mitigation
A wheat self-sufficiency roadmap for Ethiopia’s future
Nutrition, health and food security
Mechanization could boost Ethiopian wheat production and provide youth with new job opportunities.
Breaking Ground: Susanne Dreisigacker knows wheat inside out
Innovations
Dreisigacker works to discover and validate molecular markers, or DNA segments, for traits of interest.
Fighting hidden hunger from the ground up: the powerful link between soils and nutritious food
Environmental health and biodiversity
New publications: Germplasm bank accessions add value to elite wheat lines
Nutrition, health and food security
For the first time ever, a research team of more than 40 scientists has genetically characterized values of exotics in hexaploid wheat.
