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September 5, 2024
Improving soybean yield through good seed and varieties: Insights from Radio IITA Farmers Outreach
August 29, 2024
Enhancing farmer’s crop productivity with resilient maize varieties tailored to their needs - For more than a decade, the participatory regional on-farm trials (ROFT) have involved hundreds of farmers to identify the most suitable new maize hybrids, contributing to CIMMYT’s mandate of tackling food and nutrition insecurity through advanced breeding methods
July 26, 2024
University of Georgia supports African research network breeding climate-adapted peanuts
July 25, 2024
Unlocking Zambia’s maize potential through crop diversity - CIMMYT and the Zambia Agriculture Research Institute (ZARI) trial different methods to increase maize productivity
July 9, 2024
Strengthening the soybean variety development and testing network: IITA hosts collaborative training for West African breeders
July 3, 2024
Revised market segmentation for spring wheat—achieving alignment between ICARDA and CIMMYT
June 20, 2024
Building global capacity to combat wheat blast - In collaboration with ZARI and other partners, CIMMYT brought together wheat scientists, researchers, academics, policymakers, and extension agents to address the urgent threat of wheat blast across borders
June 14, 2024
Zimbabwe - Cutting-edge biotechnology lab opens at Lupane Sate University (The Herald)
Ethiopian researchers travel to India to strengthen knowledge regarding increasing wheat productivity - As part of ADAPT-Wheat, four scientists exposed to the latest technologies, methods, and equipment
June 4, 2024
Egerton University to spearhead Sh121m plant breeding and biotechnology project (Standard Media)
May 30, 2024
CIMMYT and China join forces to tackle wheat disease in Africa
May 29, 2024
Maroc - Évolution génétique des semences : l’INRA sur le front de bataille (Les Echos)
May 14, 2024
Building a climate-smarter Tanzania - In a climate change scenario, a team of researchers and scholars from SUA, UCPH, IRRI, TARI, and KALRO are working to ensure East and Southern Africa’s food security through spatiotemporal mapping, identifying eligible rice lines, and developing climate-smart rice varieties
May 4, 2024
Towards a constructive engagement with the private sector through the African Cereal And Legume Breeding Consortium (ACLBC)
March 5, 2024
Danforth Center and Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research receive $4.9M grant - Funding from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will support improving the productivity of tef, a promising climate-resilient crop
January 26, 2024
AfricaRice launches Multiple Harvest Rice for Africa project
January 8, 2024
International research collaboration aims to boost food security for Africa through crop improvement
January 5, 2024
To improve food security in Zambia and Tanzania, CIMMYT and Zamseed join forces to strengthen maize resilience
December 1, 2023
Ten years later: CIMMYT facilities in East Africa continue to make a difference - A decade of maize impact, celebrating 10 years of success with CIMMYT's maize DH and MLN screening facilities
November 10, 2023
Forging partnerships key to harnessing gene editing potential in Zimbabwe (The Herald)
November 7, 2023
Semences de blé : Syngenta Maroc et INRA livrent les résultats «positifs» de leur partenariat
October 30, 2023
Report from the Africa Vegetable Breeding Consortium annual workshop 2023 in Tanzania
October 12, 2023
South Africa invests in indoor plant breeding facilities (Research Professional News)
October 9, 2023
New biotechnology engineering and research center to start operations In Kenya (Kenya News Agency)
August 29, 2023
First defence against devastating ToCSV tomato virus explored
August 14, 2023
Nigeria - National Agricultural Seed Council confident that the IMAGE Project (Institutionalising Monitoring of Variety Adoption, using Genotyping) will boost seed quality (TYC News)
July 14, 2023
Scaling agriculture science and innovation for a climate-resilient future in Africa
June 21, 2023
Bill & Melinda Gates Agricultural Innovations and African Agricultural Technology Foundation join forces to accelerate research into staple African crops
June 16, 2023
Wheat output in Africa and South Asia will suffer severely from climate change by 2050, modelling study shows
May 19, 2023
West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) at the University of Ghana to celebrate 16 years of contributing to food security in Africa (News Ghana)
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