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.
Research, innovation, partnerships, impact
Innovations
Knowledge share fair highlights CGIAR contributions to the Ethiopian agriculture sector.
Space data applications for wheat and maize research
Innovations
How can space technology help improve maize and wheat production? CIMMYT joined a group of international data users in a recent project to find out.
Mexico’s heirloom corn is dying out–but this designer has a plan to stop it
Innovations
Source: Fast Company (7 Jun 2019)
Designer Fernando Laposse collaborated with CIMMYT to find seeds and resuscitate six species of native Mexican corn.
System uses plants to lure fall armyworm away from maize fields
Innovations
Scientists in Nepal are evaluating push-pull cropping systems as a pest control method.
Breaking Ground: Mechanization expert Jelle Van Loon goes as far as creativity allows
Innovations
CIMMYT’s mechanization team is in a quest to build the perfect machine for each farmer.
New publications: Agro-ecological options for fall armyworm management
Innovations
Researchers suggest agro-ecological approaches be promoted as a core component of integrated pest management programs.
SRFSI: The West Bengal story
Climate adaptation and mitigation
In the state of West Bengal, India, farmers and entrepreneurs are finding success with the help of climate-smart conservation agriculture practices.
You can grow wheat, rice with 40% less water-research shows
Innovations
Source: Daily Trust (23 May 2019)
CIMMYT researchers report a sub-surface drip fertigation system combined with conservation agriculture uses less water to produce the same wheat and rice yields.
Zim to get 1 670 tractors
Innovations
Source: The Herald (21 May 2019)
Announcement by Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement was made at CIMMYT FACASI project meeting.
MARPLE team recognized for international impact
Innovations
Research team behind revolutionary field test for wheat disease wins prestigious BBSRC prize.
Winners of 2019 MAIZE Youth Innovators Awards – Africa announced
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
The five young awardees are advancing change, innovation and research in their communities.
Fact sheet debunking labor and mechanization myths presented in Zimbabwe
Capacity development
Research shows African farming households are far more dependent on hire labor markets, and much more inclined to hire mechanization services, than previously thought.
Transforming African agriculture through mechanization
Innovations
Source: The Nigerian Voice (3 May 2019)
The FACASI project has benefited over a hundred young people from Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
Taking maize agronomy to scale in Africa Q&A
Innovations
Jens Andersson, a social scientist at CIMMYT, speaks on how we could reinvent advisory services for the African smallholder farmers.
New publications: Small businesses, potentially large impacts
Innovations
The role of fertilizer traders as agricultural extension agents in Bangladesh.