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.
CIMMYT delegation meets with Turkey’s Minister of Food, Agriculture, and Livestock
Nutrition, health and food security
Global conference underscores complex socio-economic role of wheat
Capacity development
A recent gathering of more than 600 scientists highlighted the complexity of wheat as a crop and emphasized the key role wheat research plays in ensuring global food security.
CIMMYT wheat breeder Ravi Singh wins China’s Friendship Award
Nutrition, health and food security
Gains in China’s agricultural productivity over the past 30 years are due in large measure to smallholder farmers who have readily adopted innovative farming practices.
India visit: Dr. Martin Kropff, Director General, CIMMYT
Capacity development
Summary of CIMMYT Director General Martin Kropff visit to different research sites in several states of India, 28 September – 2 October, 2016.
CIMMYT helps the Seed Entrepreneurs’ Association of Nepal devise its organizational strategy
Capacity development
In response to the interest expressed by the Seed Entrepreneurs’ Association of Nepal (SEAN), CIMMYT-Nepal organized a meeting with SEAN and the Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) on 29 July 2015 at NARC’s Agriculture Botany Division, Khumaltar, as an activity of the CIMMYT-led Cereal System Initiative for South Asia-Nepal (CSISA-NP).
Pakistani stakeholders evaluate the performance of CIMMYT maize germplasm across Punjab
Capacity development
Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC), organized a traveling seminar to give stakeholders the chance to evaluate the performance of CIMMYT maize germplasm in Punjab Province, Pakistan.
Message from Borlaug-Ruan international intern Sweta Sudhir, Turkey, summer 2015
Capacity development
Borlaug-Ruan international intern Sweta Sudhir tells us about her summer at CIMMYT-Turkey.
Zero-till wheat raises farmers’ incomes in eastern India, research shows
Climate adaptation and mitigation