A Global Agricultural Research Partnership

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, known by its Spanish acronym, CIMMYT, is a non-profit research and training organization with more than 400 partners in over 100 countries.

The Center works to sustainably increase the productivity of maize and wheat systems and thus ensure global food security and reduce poverty. For this it applies the best of biotechnology, traditional agronomy and breeding, socioeconomics, agricultural extension, and capacity building to create sustainable solutions with lasting impact and a strong focus on climate change, hunger, rural community development, and the environment.

Contacts

CIMMYT headquarters:
Apdo. Postal 6-641, 06600 Mexico, D.F., Mexico
Tel: +52(55) 5804-2004
Fax: +52(55) 5804-7558

Dr. Thomas Lumpkin
Director General
Email: t.lumpkinATcgiar.org

For media enquiries

Chris Cutter
External communications officer
Email: c.cutterATcgiar.org

News

Research battles wheat spot blotch disease

After screening some 500 wheat lines and varieties at 6 sites in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal, a group of scientists were able to identify 35 genotypes that resist spot blotch. This is the number-one disease of wheat in the Eastern Gangetic Plains, ser…

CIMMYT/CCAFS in India: Gender, action, research

In June 2013, ML Jat (Global Conservation Agriculture Program) and research teams in Bihar and Haryana, India, welcomed CIMMYT gender specialist Tina Beuchelt and gender consultant Cathy Farnworth to discuss integration of gender perspectives into thei…

Publications

Project News

DT Maize Vol. 2 No. 2 June 2013

DT Maize is a quarterly publication of the DTMA (Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa) project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Its aim is to inform partners and the general public at large about developments related to drought tolerant maize in Sub- Saharan Africa. It publishes short, general

Slides

Press Clippings

Dust off the rust

CIMMYT’s Ravi Singh quoted in the article reporting on stem rust – old enemy that is back with a vengeance after half a century of complacence. A series of resistant wheat varieties developed in the mid-20th century kept stem rust, a devast…

‘Agricultural Innovation Programme’ launched

ISLAMABAD : The US Agency for International Development (USAID), the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) have launched the Agricultural Innovation Programme to expand the use o…

Videos

Why is wheat a strategic crop for Africa?

Why is wheat a strategic crop for Africa? In the 1990′s, economists considered wheat to be a “minor food” for consumers in sub-Saharan Africa. But wheat is a no longer a minor crop. African countries will spend about US$20 billion to …