Americas
CIMMYT has several offices in the Americas, including global headquarters in Mexico and a regional office in Colombia. Activities are supported by an additional 140 hectares of stations in diverse agro-ecological zones of Mexico. CIMMYT’s genebank in Mexico stores 27,000 maize and 170,000 wheat seed collections – key to preserving the crop genetic diversity of the region. CIMMYT projects range from developing nutritionally enhanced maize to mapping regional climate change hot spots in Central America. The comprehensive MasAgro project aims to increase wheat production in Mexico by 9 million tons and maize production by 350,000 tons by 2030. CIMMYT promotes regional collaboration and facilitates capacity building for scientists, researchers and technicians.
University of Wisconsin students experience Mexico’s maize and culture
Capacity development
On 9 August CIMMYT-El Batán welcomed a group of 22 students and three teachers from the University of Wisconsin for a week-long stay. The students are enrolled in the university’s course for a Global Health Certificate, which introduces students to a preventive, population-level, interdisciplinary approach to health promotion.
Study shows climate change could negatively Impact maize and wheat yields by 2030
Climate adaptation and mitigation
MasAgro Móvil brings key crop Information to farmers’ mobile phones in Guanajuato
Capacity development
After registering for the service, farmers receive short, simple, timely and free agricultural information on the most innovative and profitable conservation agriculture practices.
CIAT and CIMMYT complete genetic analysis and plant breeding course in Colombia
Capacity development
CIMMYT and the Canadian wheat alliance join forces to fight durum wheat diseases
Nutrition, health and food security
AIP-maize establishes public-private variety evaluation network in Pakistan
Nutrition, health and food security
The Borlaug Summit on Wheat for Food Security: speaker spotlight
Nutrition, health and food security
