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.
Crop technology from CGIAR, including CIMMYT seed varieties, contributes US $47 billion each year to the global economy according to fresh analysis of six decades’ worth of data
Innovations
Source: Seed Quest ()
A study in World Development reveals that CGIAR’s crop technologies, including significant contributions from CIMMYT, generate $47 billion annually in global economic benefits.
Agricultural research adds billions of dollars to economy
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Crop technology from CGIAR, including CIMMYT seed varieties, contributes US $47 billion each year to the global economy according to fresh analysis of six decades’ worth of data.
Sustaining Conservation Agriculture initiatives: lessons from Malawi
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Conservation Agriculture offers sustainable solutions for Malawi’s agriculture. Prioritizing farmer-centered approaches can drive widespread adoption, ensuring food security and climate resilience.
Digging in the Dirt: Detailed soil maps guide decision-making, from the field to the policy room
Climate adaptation and mitigation
It’s not just dirt. Soil health is a key component in agricultural sustainability.
Successful surveillance results in early first detection of Ug99 in South Asia
Environmental health and biodiversity
The detection of a Ug99 race in Nepal highlights the effectiveness of the wheat rust surveillance and monitoring systems developed by CIMMYT and partners.
New technologies to mitigate impact of drought
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Source: The Herald ()
CIMMYT aims to improve food security and resilience against climate change through climate-smart agriculture and innovative partnerships.
Revolutionizing food security: Africa’s millet renaissance
Climate adaptation and mitigation
With the right mix of policy support, technological innovation, and market development, millets have the potential to become the cornerstone of Africa’s resilient and sustainable agricultural future.
Bargaining for Better: How gender roles in household decision-making can impact crop disease resilience
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
A study by CIMMYT found a positive association between women’s role in household decisions concerning crop production and the adoption and turnover of rust-resistant wheat varieties.
A marine engineer embarks on making life easier for farmers in his native village, by establishing a one-stop shop agri-business center
Capacity development
The Bhusari Cold Storage in Begusarai, Bihar, has helped build the capacity of over 25,000 smallholder farmers through improved access to farming resources, advanced technologies, and advisories on climate-resilient agri-practices and allied services.
PARC pioneered, climate resilient wheat varieties
Capacity development
Source: Lead Pakistan ()
The seminar on “Sino-Pak Wheat Genomics” showcased CIMMYT and CAAS China’s collaborative efforts to enhance wheat productivity with cutting-edge genomics.
New edition of Scaling Scan emphasizes on sustainable and equitable impact
Innovations
The enhanced version of the Scaling Scan tool takes into consideration how gender roles and climate change can affect or be affected by a scaling program.
Borlaug Global Rust Initiative announces 2024 Women in Triticum (WIT) awardees
Capacity development
The 2024 Women in Triticum Early Career Awards recognize early-career scientists for their advancements in wheat research and food security.
Network develops optimized breeding pipelines for accelerated genetic gains in dryland crops
Capacity development
The Africa Dryland Crop Improvement Network (ADCIN), NARES, and CGIAR scientists in Africa optimized quantitative genetic criteria for breeding programs and breeding strategies and pipelines for chickpea, pigeon pea, groundnut, sorghum, pearl-millet, and finger millet crops.
No Stones, No Grit! A game-changing technology to process small grain introduced in Zimbabwe
Capacity development
A locally made, affordable multi-crop thresher offers a convenient post-harvest processing option for smallholder farmers.
Breaking ground and redefining roles in the agri engineering sector: Anjuara Begum
Capacity development
Anjuara’s journey from a widowed mother to a successful grinding operator is an inspiring story of resilience. CSISA–MEA’s light engineering training for women has not only transformed Anjuara’s life but also prompted a paradigm shift in the perception of women’s capabilities in traditionally male-dominated roles.
