Poor and subsistence farmers, lacking hybrid and improved maize varieties, struggle daily to eke out an existence from low yielding plants that offer little resistance to destructive insects and diseases. In many of the ...

CIMMYT economists ask and answer fundamental questions about CIMMYT’s maize and wheat research: Do our research products help people? How do they help them? Can we design research products that are better at meeting farmers’ ...

El CIMMYT lleva a cabo actividades de investigación y capacitación en servicio en cuatro estaciones situadas en México, además de la sede. Por su diversidad agroclimática, esas estaciones permiten sembrar cultivos ...

Southern Africa, where maize is a highly valued staple for small-scale, resource-poor farmers and their families, and where drought repeatedly threatens or destroys harvests and livelihoods.

CIMMYT and its partners engage in one of the world’s most ambitious humanitarian endeavors: together, we form a global wheat and maize improvement system that seeks to better the lives of millions of poor farmers and ...

Asia plants more than half of the developing world's wheat crop and almost half of its maize crop. So why should anyone be concerned about Asian agriculture? The answer is that improvements in agriculture are often the ...