The impact of CIMMYT's outreach programs is largely dependent upon the quality of information, materials, training and coordination emanating from its core program in Mexico and from the highly effective cooperative network ...

Between August 1974 and April 1975, the staff of this center conducted a program review. About 40 senior staff members comprised a panel which examined the research plots in the second cycle of 1974. Field visits required ...

The year 1976 marks the end of CI MMYT's first decade and the start of the second. Such a milestone justifies a look backward at what has happened to CI MMYT and its collaborators, and a look forward at the foreseeable ...

Scientists in 45 countries throughout the world now participate directly in CIMMYT's international maize progeny, experimental variety and elite experimental variety trials. And, in 1975, CIMMYT staff visited over 40 of ...

During the 6-month period ending March 1974, the staff of this center conducted t review of its own programs. Wheat scientists examined the research fields of maize. The maize staff examined the fields of wheat. The ...

In the concern over the current world food crisis, the importance of maize is often underestimated: hunger is commonly understood as a question of rice ahd wheat. Indeed, while maize is second in production only to wheat ...

In 1976, a dozen farmers in Mulunguishi, a tiny village in southeastern Zaire, harvested 6000 kilograms of maize a hectare -a yield that would be respectable for any maize farmer. These farmers were participating in a ...

Egypt has pulled together widely dispersed scientists into an efficient, systematic maize research group. With CIMMYT's help, the foundation is being laid for sharply raising the productivity of the nation's major food crop.

If we profile CIMMYT history in a diagram, we cannot chart a smooth upward-moving line; rather we see a series of steps - each step reflecting a new situation, new problems, -new oPPortunities, and sometimes new leadership ...

In the pages which follow, our staff has assembled a review of its recent programs and activities. This report by design, focuses on the scope and logic behind CIMMYT's activities. It is mainly directed toward the agricultural ...