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Nepal imports hundreds of thousands of tons of maize every year to meet the growing demand of its livestock and feed industries. Yet, the country’s fertile Terai region has enormous, untapped potential to produce high-quality maize, increase rural incomes, and strengthen national food and feed security. The challenge has never been about production alone—...


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VACS Professional Fellows conducting laboratory research at the BeCA–ILRI Hub in Nairobi, Kenya, as part of the VACS Capacity Project, strengthening skills in modern crop breeding and data-driven agricultural research (Photo: CIMMYT)

Africa’s future food security is being shaped not only in farmers’ fields, but also in laboratories, breeding programs, and data scienc...


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Rome, Italy | Tuesday, 4 August – CIMMYT and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), today signed a landmark global agreement to strengthen the world’s ability to feed people in a crisis while building more resilient agricultural systems for the future.

The new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) brings together the world’s leading human...


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The states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Telangana in South Asia serve as major hubs, supplying most (~85%) of the maize hybrid seed not only to other maize-growing states in India but also to neighboring countries in South and Southeast Asia. Of course, the movement of hybrid seed from these hubs to distant places has been a major concern for ensuring the availability of qu...

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Zimbabwe’s seed sector has reached an important moment. The recent conversation on Seed Production Technology (SPT) was not simply another technical workshop. It was a test of whether the country can move promising agricultural science from evidence to responsible use. For CIMMYT, the discussion was key as Seed Production Technology for Africa (SPTA) h...


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