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Ismahane Elouafi on TIME100 list of the most influential people in the world
16.04.25CGIAR is delighted to announce that CGIAR Executive Managing Director, Ismahane Elouafi has been nam…
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Harvesting Collaboration for Food Security. CGIAR Science Week Closes.
14.04.2511th April, Nairobi, Kenya: After a remarkable week of science, innovation, and cementing of partner…
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MEDIA RELEASE | New CGIAR flagship report translates insights into impact for food systems in crisis
14.04.25Nairobi, Kenya, 14 April 2025 – With food systems under strain from climate change, conflict,…
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Science Week Opens: A Leap Forward in Science Collaboration for Food Security
08.04.257th April, Nairobi, Kenya: Science Week was launched today by Special Guest H.E. Musalia Mudavadi,…
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Science Week 2025 is Now
07.04.25The inaugural CGIAR Science Week gets underway in Nairobi, Kenya. From 7 to 12 April,…
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What are kids watching online? How digital food marketing shapes children’s and adolescents’ diets
03.04.25By Gabriela Fretes and Jef L. Leroy April 3, 2025 What do children and teens see when they…
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New CIMMYT pre-commercial hybrids available from Asia maize breeding programs
05.08.19-
Food security
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is offering a new set of improved…
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CIMMYT and CGIAR staff join Ethiopia’s record-breaking tree-planting campaign
01.08.19-
Biodiversity
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Environmental health
July 29, 2019, was a remarkable day for Ethiopia. People across the country planted 353,633,660 tre…
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Cobs & Spikes podcast: Interview with Juan Gonzalo Jaramillo Mejia on social inclusion
31.07.19-
Gender equality
How can social protection programs be truly inclusive? Taking a social inclusion lens to agricultura…
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India honors CIMMYT climate-smart farming expert
22.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) honored a cropping systems agronomist from the…
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New manual provides quantitative approach to drought stress phenotyping
22.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
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Food security
Since 1900, more than two billion people have been affected by drought worldwide, according to the…
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Precision spreader for fertilizer set to change the agriculture scene in Nepal
19.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Smallholder farmers in Nepal tend to apply fertilizer by hand, spreading it as they walk…
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What farmers want
19.07.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) has been undertaking participatory mai…
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Top scientists from CGIAR to present latest research at International Wheat Congress in Canada
17.07.19Amid global efforts to intensify the nutritional value and scale of wheat production, scientists fro…
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New association formed to support smallholder native maize farmers in Mexico
08.07.19-
Biodiversity
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Gender equality
Expert Mexican scientists and farmer cooperatives have formed a non-profit organization to support s…
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Cobs & Spikes podcast: Women in wheat science
01.07.19Demand for wheat is predicted to increase 70% by the year 2050. As demand for…
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Experimental stations in Mexico improve global agriculture
01.07.19The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) operates five agricultural experiment …
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Reconciling food security, resource depletion and environmental quality trade-offs in India
28.06.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
New research, by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), delved into linkages…
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The case for rushing farmer access to BARI Gom 33
26.06.19-
Food security
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Nutrition
In 2016, the emergence of wheat blast, a devastating seed- and wind-borne pathogen, threatened an a…
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CIMMYT global partnership fights mutating wheat rust
24.06.19-
Food security
Stem rust, which occurs mainly in warm and humid conditions, is a serious biotic threat…
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Are high land rental costs pricing African youth out of agriculture?
21.06.19-
Gender equality
A new study shows that youth can face higher land rental prices than older farmers in Tanzania…
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Bird’s-eye view
20.06.19-
Food security
A new study from researchers at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) shows…
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Groundwater conservation policies help fuel air pollution crisis in northwestern India, new study finds
17.06.19-
Climate adaptation & mitigation
Groundwater conservation policies are contributing to the air pollution crisis in northwestern India…
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The recipe for better food systems
12.06.19-
Nutrition
How food is produced, consumed, and how much is lost or wasted shapes the health…
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