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Discover groundbreaking research from CIMMYT and CGIAR to promote gender equality in agriculture and achieve a sustainable future.

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As Director General of the International Potato Center (CIP) and as CGIAR’s Global Director for Genetic Innovation, Wells helped improve the health and livelihoods of millions of people.

Explainers

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Over millennia, natural selection and humans have systematically adapted the plant species that provide food and other vital products, changing their physical and genetic makeup for enhanced productivity, nutrition and resilience. Plant breeders apply science to continue improving crop varieties, making them more productive and better adapted to climate extremes, insects, drought and diseases.

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Research on gender and maize looks to move beyond trait preferences at seed demand more broadly.

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Sustainable Agrifood Systems Program Director (SAS)
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Projects will focus on developing new breeding technologies, screening tools and novel traits to improve wheat in the face of heat and drought.

Publications

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Researchers evaluate the use of genomic selection in wheat breeding against deadly fungal disease.

Features

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Increasingly unpredictable weather poses challenges for breeding widely-adapted wheat lines, but stress tolerance breeding is boosting wheat’s hardiness under rising temperatures.

Blogs

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In addition to macronutrients and micronutrients, staple cereals are important sources of bioactive food components.

In the media

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Source: Newsweek (30 Dec 2021)

The best protection is actually reducing food system risks by building food system resilience against shocks.

Press releases

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Scientists find novel way to combine two species of grass-like plants including banana, rice and wheat, that allows disease resistance and other beneficial characteristics to be added to the plants.

Features

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New research uncovers long-term impacts of Green Revolution era productivity, points out lessons for today.

In the media

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Source: The New Yorker (6 Dec 2021)

A new article in the New Yorker praises the cutting-edge technology CIMMYT, CGIAR and other scientists are developing to produce a second Green Revolution that doesn’t repeat the mistakes of the first, putting the experiences and challenges of farmers at the heart of it.

News

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CIMMYT’s programs in Colombia and Mexico showcased as examples of successful public–private partnerships for sustainable agriculture, economic growth and improved nutrition.

Features

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Legacy websites and photo exhibition mark the closing of the CGIAR Research Programs on Maize and Wheat, and their impact on sustainable agricultural development.