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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
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Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
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Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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AI sparks a new agricultural revolution in the Global South
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Big data
On a sunny April morning in Nairobi, the United Nations compound buzzed with more than…
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Empowering dryland communities through drought early warnings to enhance resilience
14.05.25Amidst the challenges of drought, climate change, conflicts, and other shocks that significantly imp…
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International Day for Biological Diversity 2025: Agrobiodiversity for People and Planet
13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Annual Report 2020 launched
06.07.21We began 2020 with grim news of the COVID-19 pandemic spreading from country to country,…
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Capturing a clearer picture
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Gender equality
A new guidance note shines a brighter light on the role of women in wheat-based…
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From science to impact: a chat with women scientists at CIMMYT
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Gender equality
At the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), staff are one of our most…
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Bangladesh could largely reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture while increasing efficiency in production
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
A number of readily-available farming methods could allow Bangladesh’s agriculture sector to decre…
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Adult plant resistance (APR): the strategy to beat persistent pathogens
18.06.21The three rust diseases, yellow (stripe) rust, black (stem) rust, and brown (left) rust occur…
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Hybrid seed production and marketing advances
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Food security
“My goal is to produce and sell 200 metric tons of hybrid maize by 2025,”…
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Hands-on experience in seed production
15.06.21Recently, a group of 40 postgraduate students from Nepal’s Agriculture and Forestry University (AF…
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New integrated methodology supports inclusive and resilient global food systems transformation
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Food security
The new methodology developed by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in co…
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Mapping the way to lower nitrous oxide emissions
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
Like many issues besetting contemporary agri-food systems, the question of nitrogen use appears to y…
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A view from above
25.05.21-
Big data
Scientists at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) have been harnessing the…
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Buying into new seed
24.05.21-
Food security
The goal of the out-of-stock study is to improve an understanding of how farmers make…
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Four questions with CIMMYT’s Maize Genebank Curator
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Biodiversity
Seeds are a cornerstone of food security. That is why the maize and wheat genebanks…
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A conservation conversation
21.05.21-
Biodiversity
Germplasm banks around the world are protectors of genetic diversity, altogether preserving roughly …
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Digitization equipment set to accelerate Kenya’s breeding programs
04.05.21Last month, the CGIAR Excellence in Breeding (EiB) platform handed over digitization equipment to th…
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CIMMYT and John Innes Centre announce strategic collaboration on wheat research
29.04.21The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the John Innes Centre (JIC) have…
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New project to recharge aquifers and cut water use in agriculture by 30 percent
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) announced a new three-year public–pr…
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Many birds with one stone
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In Ethiopia, farming systems rely heavily on animal and human power, reducing productivity and effic…
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Far-reaching impacts
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
In 1966, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) hosted a training event tha…
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