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.

Projects

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In the media

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Source: BBC News (1 Mar 2019)

CIMMYT’s head of wheat research Ravi Singh commented on the publication of the wheat gene map.

News

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A study demonstrates how rice and wheat can be grown using 40 percent less water.

In the media

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Source: SeedQuest (20 Mar 2019)

The maize DH facility, funded by the CGIAR Research Program on Maize, has the potential to accelerate maize breeding and hybrid development in Asia.

Features

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By reducing drudgery, irrigation and costs, conservation agriculture enables the soil of the charlands to produce rice and maize yields consecutively.

News

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Minister MĂĽller explored the campus and heard about CIMMYT’s latest innovations in maize and wheat research.

Features

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With so much germplasm to categorize, what’s the best way to label them? Seeds of Discovery is working on the answer.

News

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These technologies, known as high-throughput phenotyping platforms, replace lengthy paper-based visual observations of crop trials.

Publications

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The study opens the door for a series of important biological questions about the role of RUE in yield potential and in the ability to increase grain biomass.

In the media

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Source: AgroNews (4 Mar 2019)

CIMMYT and BioSense Institute jointly won the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture Inspire Challenge in 2018 for machine learning for smarter seed selection.

In the media

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Source: Addis Standard (1 Mar 2019)

Drawing on GENNOVATE case studies from two wheat-growing communities, the authors examine how women and men smallholders innovate with improved wheat seed, row planting and the broad bed maker.