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.
New online portal offers information to curb maize lethal necrosis in Africa
Innovations
The new maize lethal necrosis online portal provides up-to-date information and surveillance tools to help researchers control and stop the spread of the deadly disease.
Zero till climate-smart wheat-rice-bean crop rotations in India curb emissions
Innovations
Zero tillage with residue retention techniques in rice-wheat-mung bean crop rotations result in the lowest global warming potential, a study on sustainable intensification in India shows.
Breaking Ground: Mainassara Zaman-Allah uses remote sensing to expedite phenotyping
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Mainassara Zaman-Allah uses new technologies to speed up the collection of plant information for breeding.
New planters promote environmentally-friendly farming in Pakistan
Innovations
Farmers and research partners are praising innovative, locally manufactured farm implements that support conservation agriculture in rice-wheat farming rotation in Pakistan.
Farmer in Malawi defines true project success
Innovations
Development initiatives are only truly successful when participants graduate, adopt and leave.
New Publications: Study shows improved maize decreases malnutrition
Innovations
New evidence shows that not only do improved maize varieties increase crop productivity and farmer income, they can also decrease child malnutrition.
Breaking Ground: Crop simulation models help Balwinder Singh predict future challenges
Innovations
Balwinder Singh uses crop simulation models to help smallholder farmers in South Asia prepare for future climates and unexpected challenges.
DuPont Pioneer explores support for CGIAR Excellence in Breeding Platform
Innovations
A DuPont Pioneer leadership delegation visited CIMMYT HQ on 12 May, 2017.
Breaking Ground: Vijay Chaikam develops doubled haploid lines to accelerate maize breeding
Innovations
Vijay Chaikam works as a scientist and manager at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center doubled haploid facility in Kiboko, Kenya.
New Publications: Common platform improves collaboration for research on genetic resources
Innovations
A common platform through which data on genetic resources can be disseminated to both crop researchers and breeders can strengthen research communities.
USAID delegation tours sustainable agriculture activities in Bangladesh
Innovations
A delegation of USAID representatives recently visited southern Bangladesh to learn about sustainable agriculture activities in the area and emerging challenges to wheat production.
Scaling up research for impact
Capacity development
As part of a German Development Cooperation effort to aid the scaling up of agricultural innovations, Lennart Woltering recently joined CIMMYT’s Sustainable Intensification Program.
Q+A: Agricultural mechanization fuels opportunity for youth in rural Africa
Capacity development
Small-scale agricultural mechanization is showing signs it has the potential to fuel rural employment for youth in sub-Saharan Africa, according to researchers.