News Overview

The Government of Nepal is scaling CIMMYT’s Maize Commercial Model (MCM)—an inclusive, market-based approach that turns spring and winter rice fallows into a productive 90–120-day maize window, backed by bundled climate-smart practices, services, and coordinated value-chain partnerships. Since 2022, MCM expanded maize area from 548 to 2,032 ha and lifted yields to 6.5 t/ha (about double the national average), while farmgate prices and incomes rose alongside ~USD 3M in public–private investment. In 2025, MoALD integrated MCM into its annual program, issued national implementation guidelines, and is scaling from Western Terai to Koshi Province—linking municipalities, cooperatives, and feed mills to strengthen input supply, mechanization, storage, and market access under the CGIAR Scaling for Impact Program.

Five-day hands-on training equips scientists from Asia and Africa with practical genomics skills to improve the use of germplasm for breeding and food security.

After Cyclone Idai, women in rural Zimbabwe carry the hidden cost of recovery. This blog reveals how unpaid care work expands under climate stress, shaping food security, time poverty, and women’s everyday survival.

Climate security is shaped by complex, local interactions. Drawing on leading researchers, this blog explores how climate stress, conflict, data gaps, and system dynamics are reshaping how we study risk, resilience, and peace.

CGIAR Executive Managing Director, Ismahane Elouafi, named as one of the continent's top change makers.

The high-level meeting at UNEA-7 brought together policymakers, scientists, farmers, pastoralists, and private-sector leaders to discuss how to turn innovation into real impact for climate-resilient land, water, and food systems.

While Uzbekistan offers generous subsidies to tackle its water crisis, a hidden barrier remains: the power grid. Our research reveals why even 92% subsidies fail to convince many farmers when unreliable electricity and poor technical support make new technologies a risky bet.

Increasing river salinity is a rising threat in Bangladesh’s coastal Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta, affecting agriculture, livelihoods, and drinking water. Under CGIAR Scaling for Impact, IWMI has developed an AI/ML-driven salinity forecasting and advisory system to help farmers and water managers time sluice gate operations around polders to reduce salinity risk.