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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
CGIAR29.05.25Photo 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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)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
Digital Transformation Accelerator16.05.25-
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
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)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
CGIAR13.05.25Photo credit: Investigación para Entorno Alimentario y Comportamiento del Consumidor. CIAT/Juan Pab…
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Breaking Ground: Rahel Assefa thrives off witnessing impact
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)26.11.20Rahel Assefa works as a project manager and as the regional program manager for CIMMYT’s…
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Landmark study generates genomic atlas for global wheat improvement
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)25.11.20In a landmark discovery for global wheat production, an international team led by the University…
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Press release: Landmark study generates genomic atlas for global wheat improvement
CGIAR Research Program on Wheat25.11.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Canada), November 25, 2020. In a landmark discovery for global wheat produc…
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Progress and opportunities for CIMMYT spring wheat breeding
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)25.11.20Wheat scientists in the Accelerating Genetic Gains in Maize and Wheat for Improved Livelihoods (AGG)…
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“CIMMYT is at my heart”
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)24.11.20After a 37-year career, Hans-Joachim Braun is retiring from the International Maize and Wheat Improv…
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An instant seed market
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)20.11.20-
Food security
How do you create the largest market for stress-tolerant seed away from a major business…
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Taking stock of the national toolbox
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)19.11.20-
Environmental health
The Government of Ethiopia has consistently prioritized agriculture and sees it as a core component…
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Faster results at a lower cost
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)19.11.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The current COVID-19 pandemic — and associated measures to reduce its spread — is projected…
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Celebrating International Whole Grain Day 2020
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)19.11.20-
Nutrition
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is proud to partner with the Whole…
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Saving water and time
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)13.11.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
“I wonder why I never considered using drip irrigation for all these years,” says Michael…
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Farmers flock towards nutritious, orange maize
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)06.11.20-
Nutrition
At seed fair in Masvingo District, Zimbabwe, farmers browse numerous displays of maize, sorghum, mil…
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A catastrophe avoided
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)05.11.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Environmental health
There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen. So goes the old…
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What can the last 30 years of research tell us?
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)04.11.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Global climate change represents an existential threat to many of the world’s most vulnerable farm…
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Digital revolution can transform agri-food systems
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)04.11.20-
Big data
A digital transformation is changing the face of international research for development and agri-foo…
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Crop Modeling community of practice
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)30.10.20-
Big data
The Community of Practice on Crop Modeling is part of the CGIAR Platform for Big…
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Breaking Ground: Andrea Gardeazábal transforms data into meaningful information
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)29.10.20-
Big data
Andrea Gardeazábal has many titles — Monitor, Evaluation and Learning Manager, ICT for Agricultur…
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Reflections on resilience
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)27.10.20-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
“Most of us here were born and raised in this ward, helping our parents with…
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CIMMYT releases its first ever maize genetic resource lines
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)26.10.20The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is pleased to announce the release o…
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