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.
Breaking Ground: Andrea Gardeazábal transforms data into meaningful information
Innovations
Monitor, Evaluation and Learning Manager uses technological tools to streamline data gathering and analysis for improved project design.
Webinar explores continuous improvement approach to plant breeding
Innovations
Approach can save breeders to time and money, cut waste and improve client-focused results.
Creating impact through wider data sharing
Innovations
Platform in Bihar, India uses data to design interventions to help smallholder farmers.
Disinfecting equipment keeps agricultural production running in Bangladesh
Capacity development
Equipment and safety protocols protect agricultural machinery workshop staff from COVID-19.
AgriFoodTrust platform gains momentum in quest for more inclusive, transparent agriculture
Innovations
The testing and learning platform is working to tackle issues from adulterated seeds to crop residue burning.
Latin America poised to lead the next 50 years in food systems and agrobiodiversity research
Environmental health and biodiversity
CGIAR centers make strong case for Latin America as the best place for investing in solutions to overcome challenges to global agriculture from climate change, pandemics and more.
Q&A: How blockchain can create social and environmental impacts
Innovations
Susanne Köhler discusses how this technology can be used to increase the resilience of individuals, communities and ecosystems.
Women find a role in Bangladesh’s agricultural mechanization sector
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Technical and business training provides women with opportunities to break barriers and improve livelihoods.
Scientists find genomic regions associated with wheat blast resistance in CIMMYT nurseries
Environmental health and biodiversity
Genomic-wide association study evaluated samples from Bolivia and Bangladesh for blast-resistant genes.
Breaking Ground: Jordan Chamberlin avidly explores the changing landscapes of Africa
Innovations
CIMMYT spatial economist studies how economic behavior varies across diverse geographical contexts, how smallholder farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa are evolving, and the need to revisit agricultural resources and policies accordingly.
Tangible agricultural solutions shine at first online AGRF
Innovations
CIMMYT puts forward integrated systems, healthy diets and One CGIAR agronomic innovation at first-ever virtual edition of the African Green Revolution Forum.
‘Seeds for Needs’ approach to develop climate resilient crop varieties
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Source: India Science Wire (22 Sep 2020)
Approach combines farmers’ knowledge of resilient crops with ‘elite’ varieties identified by scientists.
CIMMYT and IITA collaborate to increase adoption of conservation agriculture in southern Africa
Innovations
New project will research and promote the adoption of sustainable farming method and practices.
Retrospective quantitative genetic analysis and genomic prediction of global wheat yields
Innovations
A new quantitative genetics study makes a strong case for the yield testing strategies CIMMYT uses in its wheat breeding program.
CGIAR breeding programs need more than just tech upgrades — they need change management
Innovations
The status quo anchors our minds to the past. Good change management can shake this up. Here are four ways plant breeding programs can ready themselves for the big changes we need to make.