Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Paula Kantor Award nominees must show gender research success in India
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
A new award recognizes contributions to the livelihoods and economic empowerment of women made by a former giant in the field of international gender research.
Kenyan delegation visits CIMMYT for collaboration on nixtamalization
Nutrition, health and food security
Yield gap analysis key to meeting future crop demand
Nutrition, health and food security
The Global Yield Gap Atlas (GYGA) can help identify where major crop yields are not increasing fast enough to meet demand on existing farmland, and how farmers might close those gaps.
Un libro que rinde homenaje a las “científicas anónimas” con motivo del Día Internacional de las Mujeres Rurales
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Rural women play a critical role in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty, providing innumerable benefits to agricultural systems around the world at all levels of the value chain, but their contributions often go unrecognized.
Book celebrates maize “secret scientists” on International Day of Rural Women
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Rural women play a critical role in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty.
Green manure crop cover reduces need for mineral fertilizer in Africa
Innovations
Green manures are an affordable and environmentally friendly alternative to fertilizer for many farmers in southern Africa.
Tackling wheat rust diseases requires $108 million a year, study shows
Nutrition, health and food security
Despite efforts to develop wheat resistant to stem, stripe and leaf rusts, the diseases will continue to thwart scientists, making ongoing funding vital, a top economist has said.
Empowering women in agriculture through SIMLESA
Capacity development
CIMMYT and the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) of South Africa host a five-day gender training workshop in Pretoria, South Africa.
Why GM wheat may be the key to stave off world hunger
Nutrition, health and food security
Unless global policymakers redouble their efforts to properly support a strategy to ensure a future food supply, the current hunger crisis threatens only to get worse.
Replacing gender myths and assumptions with knowledge
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
If we are to be truly successful in improving the lives of farmers and consumers in the developing world, we need to base our interventions on the best evidence available.
SIMLESA-Mozambique learns more about conservation agriculture technologies in Brazil
Capacity development