Innovations for development
Chewing over the future of global food security
CIMMYT Director General, Bram Govaerts, emphasizes the global food security challenges and applauds China’s efforts to address them.
CIMMYT Ethiopia signs MoU with key private food processor to bolster durum wheat market
Capacity developmentCIMMYT Ethiopia aiming to reinvigorate durum wheat production in the country to address market challenges faced by farmers.
EU-funded project refurbishes Gwanda veterinary lab, boosting livestock disease control
Environmental health and biodiversitySource: CITE (3 Nov 2023)
CIMMYT collaborates to enhance disease control for livestock, assisting smallholder farmers.
Empowering women smallholder farmers in Africa with climate-resilient and nutritious maize varieties
Gender equality, youth and social inclusionCIMMYT-NARES regional maize breeding networks empower farmers, especially women, to ensure food security in the face of climate change.
Transformative research provides pathways for including gender and socially marginalized groups
Gender equality, youth and social inclusionGenerating evidence and contributing to discussions and policy actions for inclusive and impactful agrifood systems, leading researchers from CIMMYT working with various stakeholders—including rural women farmers in Asia and Africa—converge in New Delhi at the 2023 CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform and ICAR Conference.
Community Business Facilitator: providing a service to farmers while increasing community access to nutritious food
Gender equality, youth and social inclusionWomen farmers in Nepal are increasing their income and leading positive change in their communities through capacity building programs in mechanization and post-harvest management.
The world’s future wheat will need to withstand the climate crisis
Climate adaptation and mitigationSource: Quartz (20 Sep 2023)
As hotter temperatures and drought become the norm in places used to growing wheat, CIMMYT is working to face new and ongoing challenges to develop a more climate resilient wheat.
Public and Private Plant Breeding: Finding Common Ground
InnovationsSource: SeedWorld (10 Sep 2023)
Fernando Gonzalez, a retired plant breeder from CIMMYT, participated in the webinar hosted by Seed World Group, unveiling possible paths forward public and private plant breeding efforts.
Fodder Technology Chops Backbreaking Labor in Half for Bangladeshi Women
Environmental health and biodiversitySource: AgriLink (31 Mar 2023)
The fodder chopper implemented by CIMMYT has been a game-changer for female farmers and wider rural economies in Bangladesh.
The Scaling Scan — launch of 3rd edition
Capacity developmentHelping great innovations scale to successful implementation.
Protected: Strengthen breeding new wheat varieties and promotion of spring wheat development in China by using CIMMYT germplasm and technology to increase food productivity
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Protected: Identification and exploitation of sources of resistance to yellow rust in triticale
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