This report summarizes SIMLESA 2 launch and planning meeting held in Arusha, Tanzania, to launch and plan SIMLESA 2 for Kenya and Tanzania. Representatives from the Australian Center for International Agricultural Research ...

Maize is Africa’s most important cereal crop. It is particularly vital for more than 300 million people in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) whose livelihoods are threatened by recurrent droughts responsible for crop failures. ...

This page serves as a channel of information for the general public about progress in the development of the Consensus Document on the Biology of Maize. It is explains the reasons for developing the document, the issues ...

On the basis of a diagnostic survey in 1984 and results of previous on farm experiments, a series of twelve verification trials were planted in the Swat Valley (average altitude of 1000 m.a.s.l.) in 1985. These trials were ...

The Insect Resistant Maize for Africa (IRMA) project is a joint project between Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARl) and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) with financial support from the ...

According to the priorities established in the work plan of 1988-1989, CIMMYT staff based in Guatemala spent 18 weeks traveling in El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Haiti, Panama, Costa Rica, Republica Dominicana, and Cuba ...

Maize is a major food for millions of the poor in Africa and Latin America. During the last few decades, CIMMYT scientists have developed a "quality protein maize" (QPM) that looks and tastes like normal maize, yields as ...

It is a great pleasure to publish this booklet on the occasion of NARC-CIMMYT Day to mark Three Decades of NARC-CIMMYT Partnership in Maize/Wheat Research and Development. Both maize and wheat are priority cereal crops for ...

The goal of the Network is to help smallholder farmers in Malawi and Zimbabwe produce higher, more sustainable and profitable yields from their dominant maize-based cropping systems. The Network aims to achieve that through ...