Sustainable agrifood systems

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CIMMYT offers proven science and formidable partnerships to help achieve the recently stated G7 ambitions for global food security and nutrition.

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Source: Daily Monitor Online (29 May 2023)

CIMMYT and NaSARRI have partnered to strengthen seed systems for smallholder farmers of millet, sorghum, and groundnuts.

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Smallholder farmers increasingly benefit as the younger generation adopts mechanization and sustainable agri-technologies.

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CIMMYT and partners are working to accelerate the delivery of stress-tolerant and nutritious seeds to boost smallholder farmer resilience to drought and pests in Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia.

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Securing biological diversity is a key mission for both organizations.

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CIMMYT participates in Climate Summit with an eye towards accelerating innovations.

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Source: Smart Farmer Africa (16 May 2023)

Plant health experts met on May 12, International Day of Plant Health, to discuss and address the challenges facing plant health management capacity in the Global South.

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The delivery of row seeders from India to Benin demonstrates a new path to sustainable South-South business relationships.

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Source: The Nairobi Law Monthly (9 May 2023)

Civil society actors are stepping up to strengthen Africa’s potential to prevent greater food insecurity and regional instability caused by climate impacts.

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Smart smallholder fertilizer management practices to address food security and climate change.

In the media

tag icon Nutrition, health and food security

Source: The EastAfrican (3 May 2023)

CIMMYT commits to scaling-up millet cultivation and further promoting technologies that encourage millet consumption and other dryland cereal crops.

In the media

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Source: Mexico Business News (9 May 2023)

Bram Govaerts, CIMMYT Director General, addresses the root causes of forced migrations with five adaptation measures that public and private actors can adopt to strengthen agri-food systems and protect vulnerable regions from climate shocks.

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Source: Global Citizen (21 Apr 2023)

CIMMYT gender research helps the Agrovita program, a collaboration between PepsiCo and Proforest, a UK-based agriculture non-profit, to design and promote gender sensitive training programs for smallholder cacao farmers in Tabasco and Chiapas, Mexico.

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tag icon Climate adaptation and mitigation

As rising temperatures and water scarcities threaten food production and affecting global food security and livelihoods since last century, leading research organizations have joined efforts around solutions that can also benefit climate-threatened, staple food farming in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.

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CIMMYT’s efforts to align with FAO recommendations to strengthen women’s roles in food systems.