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Pakistan's Agricultural Innovation Program ships more than 70 tons of seed of high-yield disease-resistant wheat to 3,000 smallholder farmers. […]

by Joshua Masinde, Jérôme Bossuet / December 10, 2018 NAIROBI, Kenya (CIMMYT)  — When maize lethal necrosis (MLN) was first reported in Bomet County, Kenya, in September 2011 and spread rapidly to several countries in eastern Africa, agricultural experts feared this emerging maize disease would […]

The CGIAR Research Program on Maize (MAIZE) is holding a photo contest to highlight the diversity of maize, its harvest and use around the world. The theme is ‘Harvest Diversity.’ We are looking for bright and engaging images that celebrate harvest time. Submit your entries using the online form by January 31 2019. […]

The demand for maize in South Asia is increasing, with the main driver coming from the growing need for poultry feed. Countries like Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan produce nearly 10 million metric tons of maize annually from an aggregated area of about 2.4 million hectares. […]

ICARDA has contributed 10 case studies to GENNOVATE, focusing on gender norms and agency around innovations in diverse smallholder cropping and livestock systems in India, Morocco, and Uzbekistan, and India. […]

When maize lethal necrosis (MLN) was first reported in Bomet County, Kenya, in September 2011 and spread rapidly to several countries in eastern Africa, agricultural experts feared this emerging maize disease would severely impact regional food security. […]

The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is offering a new set of improved maize hybrids to partners in southern Africa and similar agro-ecological zones, to scale up production for farmers in these areas. […]

Vignesh Muthusamy was recently awarded the 2018 MAIZE-Asia Youth Innovators Award from the from the CGIARResearch Program on Maize (MAIZE) for his work on the development of biofortified provitamin A and quality protein maize (QPM) maize hybrids. […]

Jie Xu received the 2018 MAIZE-Asia Youth Innovators Award for her work on drought stress in maize root systems. Her work seeks to understand the genetic basis of plant adaptation to drought with a view to applying the findings to breeding drought-tolerant maize. […]

Samjhana Khanal was recently awarded the 2018 MAIZE-Asia Youth Innovators Award from the CGIAR Research Program on Maize (MAIZE) in the category of “Change Agent” for her research on the productivity and profitability of hybrid maize in Eastern Terai, Nepal. […]

Dinesh Panday received the 2018 MAIZE-Asia Youth Innovators Award from the CGIAR Research Program on Maize (MAIZE) for his work in soil fertility and nutrient management to determine the effectiveness of industrial by-product (i.e., char) in reducing environmental nitrogen loss and improve nitrogen fertilizer use efficiency in maize. […]

CIMMYT’s Stress Tolerant Maize for Africa (STMA) and Drought Tolerant Maize Seed Scaling (DTMASS) projects have supported family owned seed companies to be part of sustainable long-term solutions to buffer African smallholder farmers against recurrent droughts via access to improved seeds. This is in line with CIMMYT mission strengthen local […]

The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) has been supporting Uganda-based Nalweyo Seed Company (NASECO), in collaboration with Uganda’s National Agriculture Research Organization (NARO), to develop and produce high-yielding, stress tolerant maize seed varieties, which have increased farmers’ harvests and improved […]

The maize lethal necrosis (MLN) artificial inoculation screening site in Naivasha, Kenya will begin its phenotyping (screening/ indexing) cycle of 2019 at the begining of January, 2019 and in other four intervals, interested organizations from both the private and public sectors are invited to send maize germplasm for screening. In 2013, […]

Rwandan crop researcher Theodore Assimwe. NAIROBI, Kenya (CIMMYT) — The CIMMYT family mourns the demise and honors the valuable contributions of Rwandan crop researcher Theodore Assimwe, who died on November 11, 2018. An active and dedicated CIMMYT partner and one of eastern Africa’s most promising agricultural scientists, Assimwe was […]

Maize is currently grown on 35 million hectares of land in Africa and is easily the most important staple food crop in the continent, feeding more than 200-300 million people and providing income security to millions of smallholder farmers. Nonetheless, African maize growers face many challenges, including lower than average yields, crop […]

Plant Microbiologist Tessa Mahmoudi shares her experience as a 2012 World Food Prize Borlaug-Ruan summer intern. […]

In 2017, 79 improved maize varieties were released by MAIZE partners worldwide, including 26 in Latin America, 44 in Sub-Saharan Africa and 9 in Asia. […]

As part of a global effort to roll out a sustainable integrated Fall Armyworm (FAW) management program, 35 organizations have united their efforts in an International R4D Consortium to develop a shared vision of how farmers should fight this pest. […]

By Jérôme Bossuet and Dr. Suresh,L.M./ October 10, 2018 NAIROBI (Kenya) — Members of the International Maize Improvement Consortium (IMIC) and other partners had a chance to go on a field visit to the Kiboko and Naivasha research stations in Kenya on September 18 and 19, 2018. The International Maize and Wheat […]

Children who eat zinc-enhanced wheat suffer less pneumonia or vomiting. […]

Read about changes in executive leadership, hosting arrangements, structure, and operational plans, as well as exciting science outcomes. […]

Better seed and innovative crop management can make Pakistan farming more productive, participants said. […]

Findings published in "Nature Scientific Reports" will improve access to more nutritious wheat. […]

By Dr. Suresh,L.M., Samuel Angwenyi and Francis Mwatuni : Maize Lethal Necrosis (MLN) disease is among the myriad of regional and transboundary threats that continue to render havoc to the integrity of food security in Eastern Africa region since its first detection in 2011 in Kenya. The Eastern African region, especially Kenya, Ethiopia and […]