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.
Building a sustainable future: A history of conservation agriculture in southern Africa
Capacity development
Since 2004, conservation agriculture has helped farmers in southern Africa maintain and boost yields, protect the environment and increase profits.
Seeding the future: Emergency support for drought-affected farmers in Ethiopia
Capacity development
The 2015-2016 El Niño has led to drought leaving 10.2 million people – more than 1 in 10 Ethiopians – in need of emergency food assistance.
New Publications: Advances in breeding for future climates
Climate adaptation and mitigation
New advances in heat-tolerant wheat in South Asia and how physiological breeding can help increase yields.
Sustainable agriculture takes root in Karnataka, India
Capacity development
Nearly 150 scientists, researchers and extension agents attended a field training on conservation agriculture and mechanization for sustainable intensification.
Genetically engineered crops safe to grow and eat, U.S. National Academy of Sciences concludes
Innovations
GE crops are as safe to eat as conventionally bred crops and have benefited the environment and ecosystem diversity, according to a new study
Annual meeting highlights adoption of conservation agriculture in Sichuan, China
Climate adaptation and mitigation
CIMMYT is expanding conservation agricultural practices aimed at enhancing the productivity of labor, land and capital in China’s Sichuan Province.
Harnessing maize biodiversity for food security, improved livelihoods in Africa
Capacity development
Diverse, stress tolerant maize varieties are benefiting smallholders throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
New Publications: Maize Lethal Necrosis survey reveals farmer impact, future needs
Capacity development
A new study reveals the need for continued development of maize varieities resistant to MLN and strengthening farmer resilience.
Bayer collaboration promises new innovations for South Asia farms
Climate adaptation and mitigation
CIMMYT and Bayer’s Crop Science team are looking for practical solutions to future climate-change related challenges in South Asian agriculture.
Assessing the potential of ICT in Pakistan’s agricultural extension
Innovations
CIMMYT’s Agricultural Innovation Program proposed a plan for applying ICT in agricultural extension in Pakistan
Improving diet through nutritious maize in Colombia
Innovations
A field day was organized at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture to show the advances of biofortified maize in Colombia.
“Farmers recommend,” a participative proposal by MasAgro Guanajuato
Innovations
 For a month and a half, farmers in Guanajuato shared their experiences with sustainable agriculture.
New Publications: Red root marker improves double haploid maize breeding
Innovations
Improved marker identification discovered in new study by the MAIZE CGIAR Research Program .
Cereal systems in South Asia show diverse benefits of conservation agriculture
Capacity development
Conservation agriculture practices are climate-smart, helping farmers adapt to climate change while minimizing greenhouse gas emissions, researchers say.
Scientists aim to adapt wheat to a warmer climate with less water
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Scientists battling to increase wheat production by more than 60 percent over the next 35 years to meet projected demand are optimistic that they have begun to unravel some genetic mysteries.
