
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

- Director General
Dr. Martin Kropff
- Board Chair
Nicole Birrell
- Headquarters
Texcoco - Mexico
- Website http://www.cimmyt.org/
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, known by its Spanish acronym, CIMMYT, is a non-profit research and training organization with more than 400 partners in over 100 countries.
CIMMYT is the global leader in publicly-funded maize and wheat research and related farming systems. Headquartered near Mexico City, the Center works with its partners throughout the developing world to sustainably increase the productivity of maize and wheat cropping systems, thus improving global food security and reducing poverty.
For this it applies the best of agronomy practices and breeding, socioeconomics, agricultural extension, and capacity building to create sustainable solutions with lasting impact and a strong focus on climate change, hunger and nutrition, rural community development, and the environment. CIMMYT’s germplasm bank is home to humanity’s largest collection of maize and wheat varieties made freely available to scientists, researchers and farmers around the world.
Feature image: Nepal 2016. Photographer: CIMMYT/P. Lowe
Headquarters
Address: Apdo. Postal 6-641, 06600 Mexico, D.F., Mexico
Ph: +52(55) 5804-2004
Fax: +52(55) 5804-7558
Media and Communications
Geneviève Renard, Head, Corporate Communications
Email: g.renard@cgiar.org
News from International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
Smallholder wheat production can cut Africa’s costly grain imports
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)09.02.19- Food Security
- Prosperity
International scientists are working with regional and national partners in sub-Saharan Africa to ca…
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Meet the role models for the next generation of women and girls in science
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)08.02.19- Gender
“We need to encourage and support girls and women to achieve their full potential as…
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Cobs & Spikes: Jump-starting Haiti’s maize seed sector
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)06.02.19- Food Security
- Prosperity
Haiti has the lowest maize yields in Latin America and the Caribbean, and around half…
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Publications from International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
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Genotype-specific growth and proteomic responses of maize toward salt stress
Bioversity International02.10.18- Biodiversity
- Genomics
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Climate change impact on Mexico wheat production
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)21.09.18- Climate
- Food Security
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