Multiple disease management innovations

Details are available in annual reports found here: https://csisa.org/annual-reports

Collective efforts to fight fall armyworm (FAW) led to FAW-tolerant varieties in only 2 years and dedicated IPM extension efforts reaching 187,000 farmers

Fall armyworm has become an endemic pest across Africa and Asia. International efforts enabled monitoring and surveillance and dissemination of sustainable and affordable Integrated Pest Management and breeding-based solutions. Control strategies that combined intercropping, crop rotation and adjusting planting/harvesting dates have proved promising. Within 2 years, CIMMYT made available FAW-tolerant hybrids for sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In 2021, National Agricultural Research System (NARS) partners started national performance trials. In Asia, smallholder extension efforts in Bangladesh reached 187,000 farmers during 2020-2021

47 hybrids (with high yield potential) selected for the three agricultural environments of Mexico: lowlands, mid-altitudes and highlands.

The best elite hybrids were selected from the project. The following objective is to validate their yield and agronomic characteristics through their evaluation in a greater number of localities. The best ones will be released to Mexican seed companies

Genetic dissection of maternal influence on in vivo haploid induction in maize

The optimized method showed on average 5.6 times higher overall success rate (OSR) compared to the standard haploid seedling immersion method which was the second-best method in our experiments

Ex post impact evaluation of improved maize varieties in Cameroon

The kernel‐based matching and nearest‐neighbor matching showed that the adoption of improved maize varieties by 530 and 578 kg/ha respectively

Comparative research points to sub-Saharan African farmers’ willingness to pay for climate smart maize technologies and adoption dynamics and pathways

Climate change, including increased variability, challenges smallholder agriculture. It also affects the livelihoods of smallholder maize farmers. Enhanced adoption of climate smart technologies could help farmers. This very much depends on their willingness to pay for the technologies. Studies showed that farmers are willing to pay for climate smart technologies - and their growing improved, stress tolerant maize varieties has positively affected farmer livelihoods, thanks to increased on-farm yields (on average)

Field manual for drought phenotyping

The protocol for quantitative management of drought stress in field phenotyping developed and published as hard and soft copy through CIMMYT website

60 hybrids selected to be evaluated in the 2019 collaborative evaluation network of MasAgro.

60 CIMMYT hybrids were selected and evaluated in 31 to 36 localities of Mexico in 2019. Thirteen hybrids excelled in the results of this evaluation for their high yield potential and agronomic characteristics. It will be decided which hybrids could be released at the end of 2020

A farm-level assessment of labor and mechanization in Eastern and Southern Africa.

peer reviewed journal article highlightingb the ex-ante impact assessment of small scale mechanisation in Afric