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.

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A delegation of representatives from the USAID’s Mission for Economic Growth and Agriculture in Pakistan visited the National Agricultural Research Center to see the interventions by the Agricultural Innovation Program led by CIMMYT.

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A new commentary published today in Nature Plants highlights the importance of an ancient grass species for wheat breeding.

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CIMMYT scientists produce a lot more than just improved maize and wheat varieties.

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Leonard Rusinamhodzi works with African farmers to innovate farming systems in the face of climate change.

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Nepal’s push to grow its seed sector is expanding to banking, with new financial measures expected to benefit seed companies across the country.

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Gene editing technology could revolutionize the way scientists breed high-yielding drought, disease and pest resistant, high quality plant seeds, greatly reducing the time it currently takes to develop new varieties

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A new book from Columbia University Press offers social sector organizations a how-to guide on applying new and creative methods to solve complex problems.

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Nepal will benefit from a new project that will strengthen the country’s seed and fertilizer sectors, boost farmer income and increase the country’s food security.

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The first blast resistant wheat variety has been released in Bangladesh.

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Scientist Kevin Pixley leads a project to catalogue 178,000 corn and wheat seeds at the CIMMYT seed bank near Mexico City.

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A new study examines how networks help spread new technologies and innovations in agriculture.