
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

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Director General
Bram Govaerts (a.i.)
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Board Chair
Margaret Bath
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Headquarters
Texcoco, Mexico
- Website https://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
Postal address:
Apartado Postal 041
C.A.P. Plaza Galerías, Col. Verónica Anzures
11305 Ciudad de México
MÉXICO
Phone: +52 5558042004 or +52 5959521900 (direct call from the USA: +1 (612) 605-5205).
Fax: +52 5558047558
Media and Communications
Sarah Fernandes, Head of Communications. s.fernandes@cgiar.org
Media requests: Please contact CIMMYT’s communications team.
News from International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
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Solar powered dryers boost peanut production in Togo
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)03.02.23-
Gender equality
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Gender equality, youth & social inclusion
Solar powered peanut dryers in Togo are helping women-run cooperatives reduce their workload and inc…
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Farmers harvested double yield by adopting Wengkhar Hybrid Maize 1 in Bhutan
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)30.01.23-
Nutrition, health & food security
This story is written by P.H. Zaidi of CIMMYT and Passang Wangmo and Tsheltrim Gyeltshen…
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Measuring the prevalence of the use of toxic chemicals for tick control in Uganda
CGIAR Initiative on Rethinking Food Markets26.01.23-
Environmental health & biodiversity
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Health
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Nutrition, health & food security
By Richard Ariong, Jordan Chamberlin (CIMMYT), Sarah Wairimu Kariuki and Bjorn Van Campenhout (IFPRI…
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Publications from International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
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Ecosistema de actores de servicios digitales de información agroclimática en el sector agrícola Centroamericano
The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)27.01.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Adapting growing seasons to climate change can boost yields of world’s staple crops
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)24.01.23-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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