CIMMYT

CIMMYT hosted more than 10 participants from Argentina, India, Pakistan and Thailand for a month-long wheat breeding and pathology training course from August 15 to September 15, 2026. Held at CIMMYT’s Sanjaya Rajaram Experimental Station in Toluca and at its headquarters in El Batán, Texcoco, the course trained participants to weigh disease resistance alongside field perform...

As conflict continues to disrupt livelihoods across Sudan, the Sustain Sudan Project is helping farmers rebuild food production by improving access to quality fertilisers, improved seeds, and agricultural services. The project supported the importation of 86% of the fertiliser used in Sudan during the 2025 winter season, reaching more than 100,000 farmers across 10 states. Wh...

How can researchers better understand what farm households really face, and use that evidence to design farming systems that last?

Smallholder farms in South Asia rarely produce just one crop or keep just one kind of livestock. They combine crops, animals, labor and income, and all of it is exposed to climate change, volatile markets and limited resources. Improving t...

Sonora, Mexico, 2026. Producing more wheat is no longer the ...

Can AI replace plant breeders? 

This hypothetical question, posed at the Training Workshop on AI-driven Crop Breeding and Data Management organized by CIMMYT-BISA in Hyderabad, gave 33 wheat a...