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Delivering as One CGIAR: Inaugural CGIAR Executive Management Team
06.08.20CGIAR announced today the appointment of its inaugural CGIAR Executive Management Team (EMT), compri…
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New project aims to improve food and nutrition security for 120,000 households in West and Central Africa
03.08.20Photo: Screenshot of the launch meeting via videoconference Photo: M Magassa, ICRISAT A recently lau…
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CGIAR Performance Report 2019 now available online
31.07.20-
Living within PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
An online report detailing research-to-impact results in 2019 across the CGIAR System is now availab…
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Investments in agricultural development: quantifying the socio-political and climate-change risks
29.07.20-
Biodiversity
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Climate
Scientists have created a computer model that can estimate risks for agricultural development projec…
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Policy options to improve access to quality seed in Vietnam
22.07.20-
Nutrition
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A new paper examines Vietnam’s regulatory regime surrounding planting material of vegetatively pro…
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Making food system value chains inclusive for smallholders and rural people
22.07.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Promoting EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
By Rob Vos and Khiem Nguyen Rapid urbanization and income growth are driving shifts in…
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Historic wheat research station poised to host cutting-edge research
30.07.20It was the site where International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) scientist Norman Bor…
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Work to develop high yielding Striga tolerant maize seed is bearing fruit
30.07.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Striga, an invasive parasitic weed with purple-colored flowers, looks striking and harmless. But, be…
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“Better, faster, equitable, sustainable” – wheat research community partners join to kick off new breeding project
29.07.20More than 100 scientists, crop breeders, researchers, and representatives from funding and national …
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Supporting smallholder farmers to better combat drought
23.07.20-
Climate
Researchers from the Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) project have been exploring th…
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Targeted fertilizer recommendations improve maize productivity in Ethiopia
16.07.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
A study on the impact of providing site-specific fertilizer recommendations on fertilizer usage, pro…
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Small is beautiful
09.07.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Can Africa’s smallholder farmers adopt and reap the benefits of farm mechanization? The Farm Mecha…
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Gauging the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on farming communities and agribusinesses in Nepal
08.07.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The agricultural market has been suffering since the government of Nepal imposed a lockdown from…
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When mothers learn from babies
08.07.20-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
In Chebvute, Zimbabwe the CIMMYT has established trials to test the effectiveness and productivity o…
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Could coronavirus drive farmers to adopt sustainable practices in India’s breadbasket?
07.07.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
June marks the start of the rice growing season in India’s breadbasket but on the…
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Annual Report 2019 launched
01.07.20The year 2019 showed us that while CIMMYT’s work may begin with seeds, our innovations…
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African small-scale mechanization project winds down after strong results
24.06.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe and Ethiopia have embraced small-scale mechanization thanks to an in…
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Reaping the benefits of innovation
17.06.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Post-harvest losses — which can range between 10-20% in major cereals — cause not only…
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Farmers diversify crops in their fields and food on their plates
17.06.20-
Creating JOBS and GROWTH
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
Farmers in the Bale area, in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, mainly produce wheat and barley. Temam…
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Interdrought 2020 congress proceedings now online
09.06.20-
Climate
The Interdrought 2020 congress presents the latest developments to address this global challenge. In…
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Conservation agriculture feeds people and protects the environment
04.06.20-
Climate
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Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
On June 5, 2020, the world celebrates World Environment Day as COVID-19 continues to cause…
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The many colors of maize, the material of life
04.06.20-
Biodiversity
Tonahuixtla, a small town located in Mexico’s state of Puebla, had suffered extreme environmental …
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Farm mechanization under COVID-19
02.06.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to transform the way the world operates, and agricultural production…
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Battling devastating viral diseases, also in plants
28.05.20-
Sustaining FOOD AVAILABILITY
When a maize lethal necrosis (MLN) outbreak happened in Kenya in 2011, scientists knew they…
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