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.

The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is a non-profit agricultural research and training institution. Since its inauguration in 1966, CIMMYT's primary purpose has been to strengthen and support the ...

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 ...

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’s germplasm improvement programs rely heavily on the free international exchange of maize and wheat germplasm. To facilitate such exchange, all concerned institutions, cooperators, and regulating authorities must ...

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 ...