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December 3, 2024
Zambia Agricultural Research Institute promotes climate-smart agriculture to strengthen research excellence, innovation, and sustainability - ZARI has become a leader in climate-smart agriculture through modernized facilities and strengthened partnerships
November 28, 2024
New approaches in the fight against bacterial rice disease - Healthy Crops team supports regional solutions in East Africa Neue Ansätze im Kampf gegen bakterielle Reiskrankheit - Healthy Crops-Team stärkt regionale Lösungen in Ostafrika
November 20, 2024
Starke Ayres advances vegetable breeding program through new partnership with Computomics
From data to crops: Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement (ILCI) researchers advance cowpea breeding in East and Southern Africa
October 18, 2024
Africa - Scientists intensify crop research for agri-transformation (University World News)
October 9, 2024
IITA and Pairwise secure $3.8M to boost yam production through gene editing
October 4, 2024
West and Central African wheat summit: Issues stakeholders brought to the table (Daily Trust)
September 19, 2024
Breakthroughs in crop breeding that boost food security likely in next 20 years, says global seed sector - Improved seeds and greater acceptance of crop biotechnology are on the horizon, according to a survey of more than 200 seed sector insiders
September 16, 2024
South African Cultivar and Technology Agency (SACTA) drives new cultivar development in the seed industry through its breeding and technology levy (Farmer's Weekly)
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
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