I recently went to Chiapas to learn more about how the effort is going to spread Conservation Agriculture in the Mexican State. Conservation Agriculture is a more sustainable way of farming that CIMMYT, in partnership with ...

Despite increasing fuel and irrigation costs, and problems with soil salinity, farmers in Bangladesh are demonstrating how it is possible to save water and overcome salinity with conservation agriculture. In this video, ...

An Ethiopian scientist speaks about his experience with conservation agriculture (CA) and how attending a 5 week-long course at CIMMYT expanded his understanding of CA concepts and practices.

We spoke with four farmers in the Mexican state of Michoacán to find out what changes they have seen since they adopted soil-conserving practices within the Sustainable Modernization of Traditional Agriculture (MasAgro) ...

Goedele Van den Broeck, Student Kuleuven Belgium, talks about the Conservation Agriculture in CIMMYT. Filmed October 28th 2011.

This digital story depicts the way in which 2-wheel tractors can offer a solution for the decrease in farm power in Eastern and Southern Africa. Commissioned and published by: The African Conservation Tillage Network (ACT) ...

José Almilcar Tacias Ruiz is a maize farmer in Chiapas in the community of Belisario Domínguez, described to me as "near the dam," a landmark in the area. I went with CIMMYT staff member and post harvest specialist Gerardo ...

José Almilcar Tacías Ruiz, es un productor de maíz de la comunidad chiapaneca Belisario Domínguez que se ubica, como me dijeron, "cerca de la presa", un punto de referencia en el área. Fui con Gerardo Ramírez, especialista ...

Texcoco, April 5, 2011 - Remarks by CIMMYT Director General Thomas Lumpkin at the initiation of the Programa de Modernización Sustentable de la Agricultura Tradicional, (MASAGRO). The MASAGRO program aims to raise the ...

Module Estoyo was once so degraded that rain could hardly wash away topsoil, already worn away by decades of farming. But CIMMYT Socioeconomist Dagoberto Flores has helped reclaim this damaged land using Conservation ...