News Overview

How can we ensure that the improved, climate-resilient varieties developed by CGIAR and partners reach the smallholder farmers who need them most? This question lies at the heart of CGIAR Breeding for Tomorrow’s Inclusive Delivery (formerly Seed Equal). We sat down with Christopher Ojiewo, Inclusive Delivery Lead, to unpack what ‘inclusive delivery’ means and how it can transform smallholder livelihoods. 

In Mexico, a Crops to End Hunger project has been completed to develop new elite parental lines of wheat with increased resistance to diseases. These lines can be used in breeding programs to quickly introduce specific, targeted traits, like ready-made ingredients in a larger recipe. “Deep scoping rapid-cycle recurrent genomic selection to accelerate the breeding pipeline for quantitative disease resistance

The Government of Senegal and the Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles (ISRA), together with CIMMYT and CGIAR, have inaugurated a new state-of-the-art phytopathology and crop improvement greenhouse at ISRA–CNRA Bambey.

On this UN World Soil Day, we are reminded by Dr Himanshu Pathak, Director General of ICRISAT, that healthy soils are not only the foundation of life in rural drylands, but are equally essential to the health and resilience of our cities.

In Bambey, at the heart of Senegal’s groundnut basin, a phytopathology and crop improvement greenhouse, jointly managed by Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles (ISRA) and CIMMYT, is ready to accelerate the development of improved crop varieties for millions across West and Central Africa.

IITA–CGIAR commissioned newly installed advanced irrigation systems and state-of-the-art mechanized farm equipment at the Research Farm Unit on 4 December. The commissioning, with members of the IITA Board of Trustees present, reaffirmed IITA’s commitment to scaling climate-smart research through modern mechanization for the continent.