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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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Unique partnership to transform maize breeding and production in Africa
26.08.20Scientists part of the Seed Production Technology for Africa (SPTA) and the Maize Lethal Necrosis…
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Lessons for gender in seed systems
20.08.20Seed systems are complex and dynamic, involving diverse, interdisciplinary actors. Women play an imp…
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The missing link between maize seeds and trust
18.08.20The world population is expected to rise to almost 10 billion by 2050. To feed…
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Alison Bentley to be new Global Wheat Program director
13.08.20In November 2020, Alison Bentley will be joining the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Cente…
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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
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Food security
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
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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-
Food security
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-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
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-
Food security
The agricultural market has been suffering since the government of Nepal imposed a lockdown from…
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When mothers learn from babies
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Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
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-
Food security
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-
Food security
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-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
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-
Food security
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Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
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 adaptation & mitigation
The Interdrought 2020 congress presents the latest developments to address this global challenge. In…
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