Asia
As a fast growing region with increasing challenges for smallholder farmers, Asia is a key target region for CIMMYT. CIMMYT’s work stretches from Central Asia to southern China and incorporates system-wide approaches to improve wheat and maize productivity and deliver quality seed to areas with high rates of child malnutrition. Activities involve national and regional local organizations to facilitate greater adoption of new technologies by farmers and benefit from close partnerships with farmer associations and agricultural extension agents.
Helping Nepalese farmers adapt to climate change
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Cornell University’s Linda McCandless describes some of the agricultural challenges Nepalese farmers face after the devastating 2015 earthquake
Assessing the potential of ICT in Pakistan’s agricultural extension
Innovations
CIMMYT’s Agricultural Innovation Program proposed a plan for applying ICT in agricultural extension in Pakistan
New varieties reignite maize production in Pakistan
Nutrition, health and food security
New maize varieties have the potential to increase production, enhance nutrition and strengthen national industry in Pakistan.
Award recognizes agronomist Ram Malik for successes in India’s rice-wheat systems
Nutrition, health and food security
Ram Kanwar Malik recognized for 30 years of improving India’s rice-wheat systems.
National fair highlights agricultural developments in India
Capacity development
Thousands attend India’s national agricultural fair to discover the latest crop varieties and technological advancements in the country.
Tackling challenges to cereal production through cross-crop collaborations
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Cropping systems can become more resilient in the face of climate change through better coordination and standardization.
AIP Pakistan institutes surveys to enhance effective interventions
Capacity development
AIP meets to review progress and plan follow up surveys to address farmer demands and future challenges.
Tackling spread of wheat blast in Bangladesh
Capacity development
CIMMYT Director General travels to Bangladesh to tackle wheat blast and other activities key to maintaining food security in the country.
Combating malnutrition: a new zinc-rich variety of wheat
Nutrition, health and food security
New high-zinc varieties of wheat can help improve diets in some parts of India, scientists V.K. Mishra, Ramash Chand and Arun Joshi write in The Indian Express newspaper.
Cereal systems in South Asia show diverse benefits of conservation agriculture
Capacity development
Conservation agriculture practices are climate-smart, helping farmers adapt to climate change while minimizing greenhouse gas emissions, researchers say.
U.S. embassy in Pakistan highlights hybrid maize seed production
Nutrition, health and food security
New maize varieties with resistance and tolerance to multiple stresses to benefit Pakistani farmers thanks to joint CIMMYT-USAID collaboration.
CIMMYT India staff brainstorm steps to implement strategy
Capacity development
CIMMYT Director General Martin Kropff presented the organization’s draft strategy with its unifying vision at the staff session in the organization’s Delhi office.
Scientists unearth genetic treasures from Mexico’s Creole wheats
Nutrition, health and food security
Findings can help to boost wheat’s climate resilience worldwide
At 50-year mark, CIMMYT scientists strive for gender equity
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Efforts to meet agricultural needs of women farmers to bolster global food security took shape in CIMMYT’s early days.
Researchers race to rescue wheat sample in war-torn Syria
Nutrition, health and food security
With Syria torn apart by civil war, a team of scientists in Mexico and Morocco are rushing to save a vital sample of wheat’s ancient and massive genetic diversity, sealed in seed collections of an international research center formerly based in Aleppo but forced to leave during 2012-13.
