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Publications

tag icon Gender equality, youth and social inclusion

New issue spotlights importance of gender inclusive approach to agricultural research for development.

News

tag icon Gender equality, youth and social inclusion

CIMMYT’s Women in Crop Science team win the Inclusive Team Award at CGIAR’s inaugural Inclusive Workplace Awards for creating an inclusive and respectful team culture.

Features

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Exacerbated by the pandemic, women are still facing inequality across all areas, including health and livelihoods. CIMMYT is working to make parity a reality.

Features

tag icon Gender equality, youth and social inclusion

More than 40% of the global agricultural labor force is made up of women, and in the least developed countries, two in three women are employed in farming.

Features

tag icon Capacity development

A day in the life of a farmer in India’s Odisha state, part of  tribal community that has long lived off the land. 

In the media

tag icon Nutrition, health and food security

Source: HelloGiggles (9 Aug 2021)

A list of women leaders in STEM features Evangelina Villegas—a plant chemist at CIMMYT during its early days whose ground-breaking work on quality protein maize helped combat malnutrition among developing communities.

Features

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Researchers, extension services, partners and policymakers can better support feminization of agriculture processes in the Indo-Gangetic Plains through improved research and recommendations.

News

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Rahel Assefa and Kate Dreher selected as inaugural winners of award celebrating women’s contribution to CIMMYT’s work and mission.

Features

tag icon Gender equality, youth and social inclusion

A lack of consistent keywords when tagging research is leading to holes in searches for gender research across CGIAR, the world’s largest network of agricultural researchers. A more systematic and sharper use of keywords when describing datasets will improve findability in searches.

Features

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Our climate change-ravaged food systems cannot wait for the gradual progress of gender quality.

Features

tag icon Climate adaptation and mitigation

Women in Malawi are inspiring the next generation of smallholder farmers to adopt climate-smart technologies.

Blogs

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Is it up to the village men? Or women, too?

Videos

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CIMMYT scientists and leaders join the International Day of Women and Girls in Science social media buzz and share stories about what inspired their careers.

News

tag icon Gender equality, youth and social inclusion

Seed systems play a major role in Africa’s agricultural transformation — but are they gender-friendly?

Photos

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On the International Day of Rural Women, October 15, meet farmers who are leading their families and their communities to a better life.