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Tashkent, Uzbekistan | June 3, 2026 — CIMMYT and the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan today signed an award agreement for the bridge phase of Advancing Wheat Innovation and Capacity in Uzbekistan (AWIC-UZ), a landmark initiative to modernize the country’s wheat sector. The agreement begins the conversion of the letter of intent signed in Marc...

There is something quietly extraordinary about standing in a sugarcane field in Meerut, India, watching a farmer kneel between the tall green stalks to check on his groundnut plants. Just two years ago, this farmer had never considered growing groundnut at the same time as sugarcane. Groundnut was something that came from a different corner of Uttar Pradesh’s agricultural bel...

Over the past year, my conversations with investors, government partners, and colleagues working in the field have followed a recognizable pattern. They are collegial, substantive, and almost inevitably arrive at some version of the same question: how are things really going? What lies behind it is not idle curiosity but something more searching, a genuine uncertainty about w...

When the rains stop in Ethiopia, smallholder farmers have almost no fallback. Irrigation is either unavailable or unaffordable, leaving crops exposed to dry spells at the most critical moments of growth. A new study by CIMMYT and Ambo University researchers, published in the Journal of Environmental Management, tested whether two simp...

Texcoco, Mexico | May 22, 2026 — The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) today opened IFDC’s new office at CIMMYT headquarters in Texcoco, Mexico. The office is the next step in a joint effort to establish a Fertilizer Innovation Center (FIC) for Mexico and Central Amer...