Innovations
Working with smallholders to understand their needs and build on their knowledge, CIMMYT brings the right seeds and inputs to local markets, raises awareness of more productive cropping practices, and works to bring local mechanization and irrigation services based on conservation agriculture practices. CIMMYT helps scale up farmers’ own innovations, and embraces remote sensing, mobile phones and other information technology. These interventions are gender-inclusive, to ensure equitable impacts for all.
Climate change slows wheat breeding progress for yield and wide adaptation, new study finds
Climate adaptation and mitigationIncreasingly unpredictable weather poses challenges for breeding widely-adapted wheat lines, but stress tolerance breeding is boosting wheat’s hardiness under rising temperatures.
New grafting technique could combat the disease threatening Cavendish bananas
InnovationsScientists find novel way to combine two species of grass-like plants including banana, rice and wheat, that allows disease resistance and other beneficial characteristics to be added to the plants.
State-of-the-art maize doubled haploid facility inaugurated in India
InnovationsThe facility will offer maize doubled haploid production services to public and private sector partners in South Asia.
2021 GAP Report endorses CIMMYT’s integrated agri-food systems methodology
Climate adaptation and mitigationCIMMYT’s programs in Colombia and Mexico showcased as examples of successful public–private partnerships for sustainable agriculture, economic growth and improved nutrition.
Bringing wild wheat’s untapped diversity into elite lines
Environmental health and biodiversityResearchers hypothesized that many wild wheat accessions in genebanks feature useful traits that can help diversify breeding programs.
CIMMYT scientists recognized for impact
Capacity developmentResearchers listed among world’s most influential scholars, based on citations.
Less water for better crops
InnovationsResearchers explore how coupling automation with drip irrigation can enhance water use efficiency and productivity, especially in South Asia’s cereal-based systems.
Singh receives lifetime award for wheat breeding successes
Environmental health and biodiversitySource: World Grain (11 Nov 2021)
Ravi Singh, head of global wheat improvement at CIMMYT, received the 2021 Borlaug Global Rust Initiative Lifetime Achievement Award.
A new vision of making profits drives mechanization service providers in Zimbabwe
InnovationsService providers offering mechanized services in Masvingo District, southern Zimbabwe realize quick gains in early months of the pilot.
World-class laboratories and research fields to the service of Mexico and the world
InnovationsRepresentatives of the Carlos Slim Foundation and Mexico’s National Agriculture Council (CNA) agree on the importance of collaboration between the public and private sectors, civil society and research organizations like CIMMYT.
Ravi Singh earns Lifetime Achievement award from BGRI
Environmental health and biodiversityRenowned CIMMYT plant breeder recognized for elite wheat varieties that reduced the risk of a global pandemic and now feed hundreds of millions of people around the world.
Aussie drives global research that underpins Australian wheat industry
Climate adaptation and mitigationSource: Grain Central (13 Oct 2021)
Alison Bentley spoke with Grain Central about CIMMYT’s breeding strategy and the use of CIMMYT germplasm in the Australian wheat-growing industry.
New CIMMYT maize hybrids available from Southern Africa breeding program
InnovationsCIMMYT is offering a new set of improved maize hybrids to partners, to scale up production for farmers in the region.
Scientists bridge theory and practice to boost climate resilience in wheat
Climate adaptation and mitigationReview proposes ways to accelerate climate resilience of staple crops, by integrating proven breeding methods with cutting-edge technologies.