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Annual Report
CIMMYT Report on wheat improvement 1975
(CIMMYT, 1975)
As stated in our last report, the world is awakening to the need for food in the face of the expanding world population. This is reflected in the greater worldwide awareness of the value of food and the greater interest ...
Annual Report
CIMMYT Report on wheat improvement 1974
(CIMMYT, 1976)
The first half of the 1970's was characterized by shifting economic, climatic and population forces that had a drastic effect on many of the developing countries. Policy makers in these countries sought increased agricultural ...
Article
Emergence and spread of new races of wheat stem rust fungus: continued threat to food security and prospects of genetic control
(American Phytopathological Society (APS), 2015)
Race Ug99 (TTKSK) of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, detected in Uganda in 1998, has been recognized as a serious threat to food security because it possesses combined virulence to a large number of resistance genes found ...
Article
Economic benefits of blast-resistant biofortified wheat in Bangladesh: the case of BARI Gom 33
(Elsevier, 2019)
The first occurrence of wheat blast in 2016 threatened Bangladesh's already precarious food security situation. The Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), together with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement ...
Annual Report
Seeds of change: CIMMYT Annual Report 2019
(CIMMYT, 2020)
In 2019, CIMMYT marked the end of a decade of achievements and the beginning of a decade of opportunities to improve peoples’ livelihoods. Groundbreaking crop research and partnerships offer opportunities for innovations ...
Book
Anti-Wheat fad diets undermine global food security efforts: wheat consumption healthy despite claims in self-help publications
(CIMMYT, 2014)
A recent review paper released by Britain’s University of Warwick (Lillywhite and Sarrouy 2014) addresses two fundamental questions regarding wheat: “Are whole grain products good for health?”; and “What is behind the rise ...
Annual Report
CIMMYT Annual Report 2000-2001: Global research for local livelihoods
(CIMMYT, 2001)
New varieties of maize and wheat are still important, as they are the easiest way for poor farmers to adopt new technology. The more improvements we can put into that new grain—enhanced nutrient content and A Message from ...
Annual Report
CIMMYT Annual Report 1999-2000: Science and sustenance
(CIMMYT, 2000)
At CIMMYT, our daily commitment is to focus the best agricultural science on improved human ans environmental well-being. This report describes the people and places that compel us to succeed in pur work, the range of ...
Annual Report
CIMMYT Annual Report 1996-1997: Widening the circle of partnerships
(CIMMYT, 1997)
We will continue to invest the time and energy needed to increase the visibility of agriculture (and its research) on the political landscape, as well as to assure the continued viability of CIMMYT's own research program, ...
Annual Report
CIMMYT Annual Report 1995-1996: The next 30 years
(CIMMYT, 1996)
In this Report, readers will find considerable evidence of change in CIMMYT, beyond that reflected in the bricks and mortar of our new Genetic Resources Center. For example, we highlight several initiatives involving our ...