International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center

CIMMYT Global partnerships for maize and

wheat research

Cali,Colombia

El Batán,Mexico

Harare,Zimbabwe

Addis Ababa,Ethiopia

New Delhi,India

Tbilisi,Georgia

Nairobi/Njoro,Kenya

Ankara,Turkey

Beijing,China

Almaty,Kazakhstan

IslamabadPakistan

Kabul,Afghanistan

Kathmandu,Nepal

Dhaka,Bangladesh

Karaj/Teheran,Iran

> 90 researchers in 15 offices throughout the

developing world.

> Partnerships with public research and extension

organizations, private companies, advanced research

institutes, NGOs and farmer associations.

Why Focus on Maize and Wheat?

Among the three most vital of the developing world’s basic foods.

Provide, on average, 25% of the caloric intake in developing countries.

Essential to the present and future food security…for nations and households.

Demand for maize and wheat is skyrocketing. Agricultural research is essential to provide food of sufficient quantity and quality.

Selected impacts of CIMMYT and partners’ work CIMMYT-related wheat varieties

are planted on more than 64 million hectares in low-income countries.

More than 20 million hectares in non-temperate environments of developing countries are sown to CIMMYT-related maize varieties.

More than 9,000 researchers from around the world have benefited from CIMMYT training. CIMMYT alumni now lead major crop research programs, public and private, throughout the world.

CIMMYT Products in Africa

Drought tolerant maize

20 - 100% yield increases

Reached farmers on more than 2 million hectares

Native genetic variation delivers the impact

PPP for emerging transgenics

Partnership: CIMMYT – IITA – 13 African countries

Partnership: AATF - CIMMYT Monsanto – 5 African countries

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CIMMYT Products in Africa

Rust resistant wheat

Ug99 – a global threat to world wheat production and food security

90% of all wheat varieties are susceptible

Disease has spread from Africa to Asia

A global partnership to develop new resistant varieties of wheat

Cornell University – CIMMYT – ICARDA – KARI - EIAR

CIMMYT Products in Africa

Conservation agriculture

Reverse Africa’s natural and agricultural resource degradation

Systems that are adapted to smallholder farmers conditions and investment capability

Increase WUE, NUE and reduce labour use

Partnership between CIMMYT – CIAT – IFAD – southern African countries

CIMMYT products in Africa

High Vitamin A maize

“Golden maize” for native variation

Reduce global Vitamin A deficiency

Raise b-carotene levels in maize from 1-2 ppm to > 10 ppm

Consumer acceptance studies

Partnership between Harvest Plus - CIMMYT – IITA – Purdue University Ghana – Zambia – EMPRAPA – YAAS

CIMMYT products in Africa

SME development

Seed sector studies

Access to parental seed for new seed companies

Applied business training involving established private sector

Partnership: CIMMYT – IITA – established seed companies – Howard G. Buffett

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