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Bill Gates on CGIAR and Adapting to a Warmer World
12.02.21Climate change is going to force us to consider entirely new needs. We need to…
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Today’s Climate and Food Crises Can Only be Solved in Tandem
09.02.21Extreme weather driven by climate change, conflict, and the COVID-19 pandemic are driving worsening …
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CGIAR Joins Forces with World Food Programme to Tackle Post-Pandemic Hunger
26.01.21-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning UN agency will work with CGIAR to bolster food systems amid…
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Investment into Research Must Double to Halt Climate and Food Crises by 2030
25.01.21-
Climate
World’s largest agricultural research partnership seeks to increase funding to $2 billion annually…
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Agricultural Research Unties the Gordian Knot
04.01.21-
Nutrition
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Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Agricultural research and innovation to transform our food system is the only way to cut…
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How Africa can Lead the World in the COVID-19 Recovery
18.12.20-
Securing PUBLIC HEALTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Africa, compared to Asia, Europe and the US, has largely escaped the devastating death toll…
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Far-reaching impacts
12.04.21-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
In 1966, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) hosted a training event tha…
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On-farm nitrogen management practices have global reverberations
10.04.21-
Biodiversity
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Climate
An international team of scientists has strengthened our understanding of how better fertilizer mana…
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World Health Day 2021
07.04.21-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Health has certainly been in the spotlight over the past year. And how could it…
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Nepal launches digital soil map
07.04.21-
Big data
A new digital soil map for Nepal provides access to location-specific information on soil properties…
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Revisiting the inverse size-productivity relationship
07.04.21-
Big data
Quantifying agricultural productivity relies on measures of crop production and land area. Those mea…
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Investment in maize for Africa pays off
30.03.21-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Between 1995-2015, nearly 60% of all maize varieties released in 18 African countries were CGIAR-rel…
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How do we sustainably manage transboundary diseases and crop pests?
25.03.21-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
In our hyper-connected world, it should come as no surprise that recent years have shown…
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What is nixtamalization?
23.03.21-
Nutrition
For centuries, people across Mexico and Central America have been using a traditional method, known…
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CIMMYT to dedicate historic wheat experimental station to Sanjaya Rajaram
18.03.21The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) will rename one of its most historic…
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A knowledge revolution
12.03.21The key to transforming food production systems globally lies in knowledge management processes, acc…
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Power steering
10.03.21-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
Protected from the harsh midday sun with a hat, Pramila Mondal pushes behind the roaring…
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Consider the seed
09.03.21-
Genomics
The conservation of plant genetic diversity through germplasm conservation is a key component of glo…
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The transformative value of maize
08.03.21-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
The state of Odisha, in the east of India, ranks sixth in rice production in…
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Bill Gates highlights CIMMYT’s innovation in latest climate book
03.03.21-
Climate
Global thought leader, philanthropist and one of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Cente…
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Groundwater depletion in India could reduce winter cropped acreage significantly in years ahead
24.02.21-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
India is the world’s second-largest producer of wheat and rice and is home to more…
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Drought-tolerant maize project pioneers a winning strategy for a world facing climate change
24.02.21-
Climate
Since the 1980s, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the International…
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Five big steps toward wheat self-sufficiency in Pakistan
23.02.21-
Genomics
Wheat is not just an essential part of the Pakistani diet, but also absolutely critical…
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First complete cytological characterization of the 2NvS translocation
23.02.21-
Genomics
As scientists study and learn more about the complicated genetic makeup of the wheat genome,…
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