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.
Agriculture can help the world meet climate change emission targets
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Climate-smart agriculture could be the solution for farmers to both cope with the impacts of climate change and reduce emissions.
CIMMYT encourages women farmers in Pakistan to grow their own wheat
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
CIMMYT scientist Ravi Singh receives honor for wheat genetics, breeding
Nutrition, health and food security
Scientist Ravi Singh is named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for distinguished contributions to the field of agricultural research and development.
Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia enters Phase III: focus on scalability and strategic partnerships
Nutrition, health and food security
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.
Supporting sustainable and scalable changes in cereal systems in South Asia
Climate adaptation and mitigation
The rates of growth of staple crop yields in South Asia are insufficient to meet the projected demands in the region. With 40 percent of the world’s poor living in South Asia, the area composed of eastern India, Bangladesh and Nepal has the largest concentration of impoverished and food insecure people worldwide.
New paths ahead for agricultural research
Nutrition, health and food security
It is clear that wherever CIMMYT is involved, we have a valuable and unique contribution to make.