plant breeding

Technical Assistant
Publications

tag icon Gender equality, youth and social inclusion

Male and female farmers in Ethiopia and India face different challenges to accessing new wheat varieties, discovers CIMMYT researchers.

Blogs

tag icon Capacity development

Afghan farmers need varieties with improved traits such as heat and drought resilience, incorporating functional variation from existing landrace collections.

Press releases

tag icon Innovations

Researchers build on existing source-and-sink model to map complex interaction of traits that determine wheat yield throughout its growth cycle, as a guide for breeding and future research.

In the media

tag icon Environmental health and biodiversity

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.

In the media

tag icon Nutrition, health and food security

Source: The Washington Post (22 Nov 2021)

Harvard Professor Gabriela Soto Laveaga stresses the importance of tackling hunger as more than a technical problem to be addressed through scientific advancement alone, praising CGIAR for its community-centered approach to food systems amid the climate crisis.

Product Development Breeder, Easter Africa
In the media

tag icon Climate adaptation and mitigation

Source: Mashable (13 Aug 2021)

Matthew Reynolds talked to Mashable about the importance of developing drought-resistant crops through breeding programs to protect future wheat supplies.

Scientist - Maize Breeding and Seed Systems

Senior Scientist, Maize Germplasm Bank Curator and Seed Systems Specialist

Field Assistant - Product Development Breeding

Research Officer II Breeder/Agronomist