Mucuna pruriens (velvet bean or kalongonda) is a legume, which gets most of its nitrogen (N) from the air and adds N to the soil from the leaves and stems that fail during the season. The more N added to the soil, the ...

Most of the soils in smallholders areas of Zimbabwe are acidic. This is one of the main reasons that crops grow poorly. Lime is a low cost amendment which makes soils less acidic. Lime has been widely used by commercial ...

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 ...

Una red de innovación es un conjunto de actores y sus relaciones, ubicados en un territorio, que colaboran para el beneficio individual y colectivo a través de la innovación.

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’ ...

Las decisiones estratégicas tomadas por el CIMMYT y sus colaboradores aumentarán su capacidad de contribuir a alcanzar por medio de la investigación de maíz y trigo, los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio de la ONU que ...

La investigación sobre sistemas agrícolas sustentables no es suficiente para cambiar completamente el panorama. Es importante que todas las personas involucradas en el proceso productivo del campo unan esfuerzos para ...

Despite the omnipresent focus on “scaling”, its interpretation diverges a lot between and within projects. The Scaling Scan was designed to systematically deal with the complexities of scaling and tailor scaling approaches ...