Mexico
New association formed to support smallholder native maize farmers in Mexico
Capacity development
ProMaĂz Nativo will promote small-scale landrace maize farmers through certification and fair market access.
Cobs & Spikes podcast: Women in wheat science
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Wheat physiologist Carolina Rivera shares what it is like to be a woman in agricultural science working on one of the world’s biggest problems — how to feed a growing planet.
Experimental stations in Mexico improve global agriculture
Capacity development
CIMMYT’s five agricultural research stations in Mexico are instrumental for researchers’ work to develop innovative crops and sustainable farming systems worldwide.
Honoring the life and legacy of Fred Palmer
Capacity development
Palmer made key contributions in applied science to fight hunger and improve livelihoods in the 20th Century.
Top shelf: Who has access to the healthiest processed foods?
Nutrition, health and food security
As processed food products gain popularity in Mexico City, researchers are keen to understand variation in access to healthier maize- and wheat-based foods across differences in purchasing power.
Scaling farming innovations: what, why and how
Capacity development
A group from Chiapas gets frameworks and tools to make innovations sustainable.
Mexico’s heirloom corn is dying out–but this designer has a plan to stop it
Innovations
Source: Fast Company (7 Jun 2019)
Designer Fernando Laposse collaborated with CIMMYT to find seeds and resuscitate six species of native Mexican corn.
Sustainable tradition
Nutrition, health and food security
Transition to sustainable farming using concepts from ancestral food production systems leads to healthier soils and diets in Mexico.
Breaking Ground: Mechanization expert Jelle Van Loon goes as far as creativity allows
Innovations
CIMMYT’s mechanization team is in a quest to build the perfect machine for each farmer.
Tracing maize landraces, 50 years later
Environmental health and biodiversity
Scientists track down the families in Morelos, Mexico, who donated maize landraces to CIMMYT in 1966-67. Would they still be cultivating them?
New role in Nepal is “a dream come true”
Nutrition, health and food security
Cynthia Carmona on her transition from grant management in Mexico to project management in Nepal.
The geese in Morelos, Mexico
Nutrition, health and food security
Source: La Repubblica (2 May 2019)
Researchers from CIMMYT, the University of Wageningen and the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna published a tracing study on abandonment of maize landraces over the last 50 years in Morelos.
Chicago’s tortillas are better than ever, thanks to Masienda’s heirloom corn from Oaxaca
Nutrition, health and food security
Source: Chicago Tribune (22 Apr 2019)
Three million subsistence farmers producing heirloom corn in Mexico are protecting biodiversity.
UQ licenses high-yield wheat variety
Nutrition, health and food security
Source: Food Processing (16 Apr 2019)
Australian farmers to benefit from CIMMYT high-yielding, white-grained wheat.
