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.
CIMMYT launches new podcast, Cobs & Spikes
Innovations
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Are advisory apps a solution for collecting Big Data?
Innovations
CIMMYT has been researching the use of mobile apps to provide site-specific agronomic advice to farmers.
Winners of the 2018 MAIZE Youth Innovators Awards – Asia announced
Capacity development
Four awardees are using modern technologies, dedicated to new knowledge and with hopes to improve the world.
What is green manure? And how is it helping maize farmers?
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Ten farmers in a hot and dry area of Zimbabwe trial intercropping legumes and green manure cover crops alongside their maize, to assess their impact on soil fertility.
Planting the seed of agricultural innovation in Africa
Innovations
We have seen an increased use of improved seed, appropriate technologies and agricultural machinery, all adapted to the specific needs of African farmers. It’s time to take this progress even further.
Suitcase-sized lab speeds up wheat rust diagnosis
Innovations
MARPLE (Mobile And Real-time PLant disEase) is a portable testing lab which could help speed-up the identification of devastating wheat rust diseases in Africa.
New publications: Toxin-producing fungal strains can now be detected in maize field soils with a new technique
Environmental health and biodiversity
African youth find entrepreneurial opportunity in agricultural mechanization
Capacity development
An increasing number of youth across eastern and southern Africa are creating a stable living as entrepreneurs in agricultural mechanization service provision.
