Hot models were the main topic of conversation at El Batan during 19-21 June 2013, when international experts from 18 leading research institutions participated in a workshop on “Modeling Wheat Responses to High Temperature.” This workshop was orga…
Agnes Mankhwazi is a farmer from a female-headed household in Malawi. With one of her six children on her back, Agnes explains the benefits of a maize-groundnut rotation for her livelihood. Photo credit: C. Thierfelder/CIMMYT. http://www.cimmyt.com
From left to right: Gul Erginbas Orakci, Soil Borne Pathogens program assistant in Turkey; Amer Dababat, CIMMYT-Turkey pathologist; and Elfinesh Shikur, a PhD student from Ethiopia, who is working on Fusarium crown rot with Ankara University, Washingto…
Seed production workshop participants visited a hybrid seed field at East African Seeds in Uganda. In recent years seed companies in Tanzania and Uganda have seen tremendous growth, resulting largely from the uptake of new drought tolerant maize variet…
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) awarded Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio, CIMMYT agronomist and wheat harvest coordinator, along with Pamela Matson, Walter Falcon, Ashley Dean, Rosamond Naylor, David Lobell, John Harrison, Toby Ahrens, Mike Beman, Lee Add…
