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Bottlenecks between basic and applied plant science jeopardize life-saving crop improvements
Innovations
Bottlenecks between basic and applied plant science jeopardize life-saving crop improvements.
Genome editing, gene drives, and synthetic biology: Will they contribute to disease-resistant crops, and who will benefit?
Innovations
New paper outlines potential uses of genetic engineering technologies to address problems that affect resource-poor farmers and consumers.
Extensive use of wild grass-derived “synthetic hexaploid wheat” adds diversity and resilience to modern bread wheat
Innovations
New study shows that improved bread wheat varieties obtained from crosses of durum wheat and goat grass are helping to ensure the crop’s future.
Global group of journalists find wheat research, comradery in Canada
Capacity development
WHEAT media sponsorship connects scientists and reporters at International Wheat Congress.
Warmer night temperatures reduce wheat yields in Mexico, scientists say
Climate adaptation and mitigation
International gathering highlights cutting edge efforts to improve yields, nutrition, and climate change resilience of a globally vital staple food.
CRP Maize Annual Report 2018
Nutrition, health and food security
In 2018, MAIZE delivered development outcomes and impacts through varietal release, scale-up, delivery and adoption of climate-resilient and nutritionally enriched maize varieties.
CRP Wheat Annual Report 2018
Nutrition, health and food security
WHEAT’s achievements in 2018 made an invaluable contribution to global food security, especially for the 2.5 billion people who depend on wheat for their livelihoods.
Cobs & Spikes podcast: Interview with Juan Gonzalo Jaramillo Mejia on social inclusion
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Taking a social inclusion lens to social protection and the role of men in gender equality.
The new challenges of wheat improvement
Climate adaptation and mitigation
In an interview for BBC Newsday, CIMMYT senior scientist Velu Govindan spoke of today’s challenges for wheat breeders.
New manual provides quantitative approach to drought stress phenotyping
Innovations
The manual covers field site selection, effects of weather, crop management and other factors to standardize the required intensity, timing and uniformity of imposed drought stress during field trials.
More with less: Research for intensified food production with scarcer resources and heating climates
Climate adaptation and mitigation
How plant breeding helps to feed the world.
Top scientists from CGIAR to present latest research at International Wheat Congress in Canada
Innovations
More than 800 global experts will gather in Saskatoon to strategize on ways to meet projected nutritional needs of 60% more people by 2050.
Ensuring food security for a growing planet
Nutrition, health and food security
Rising populations will squeeze food systems worldwide. Science and partnerships can help.
Inequality, agriculture and climate change: From a vicious to a virtuous circle
Climate adaptation and mitigation
A transformation is urgently needed in the world’s food system to make it more resilient to climate change and to reduce its emissions, explains the Executive Director of the CGIAR System Organization in an op-ed.
