Editors-in-chief

Rodrigo Ordóñez, Geneviève Renard

Project coordination

Alison Doody, Emma Orchardson

Art directors

Clyde R. Beaver III, Alfonso Cortés, Nancy Valtierra

Layout and design

Nancy Valtierra

Web development

Ricardo López

Graphics and illustrations

Ángel Eduardo Aguilar, Clyde R. Beaver III, Alfonso Cortés, Marcelo Ortiz, Eliot Sánchez,
Nancy Valtierra

Writers and editors

Ricardo Curiel, Leslie Domínguez, Mary Donovan, Alison Doody, Jennifer Johnson, G. Michael Listman, Marcia MacNeil, Marta Millere, Matthew O’Leary, Emma Orchardson, Samuel Storr

Contributors

Ricardo Ampudia, Lone Badstue, Hans Braun, Johanna Braun, José Juan Caballero Flores, Denise Costich, Susanne Dreisigacker, Andrea Gardeazabal Monsalue, Elias Garcia, Bram Govaerts, Filippo Guzzon, Jesús Herrera, M.L. Jat, Victor Kommerell, Timothy J. Krupnik, Jean-Flavien Le Besque, Joshua Masinde, Terence Molnar, Dina Najjar, Natalia Palacios, Thomas Payne, Kevin Pixley, B.M. Prasanna, Michael Quinn, Rajiv Kumar Sharma, H.S. Sidhu, José Luis Torres, Martha Wilcox, MAIZE Independent Steering Committee (ISC), WHEAT Independent Steering Committee (ISC)

Photography

Alfonso Cortés, Georg Goergen/IITA, Uttam Kumar, Peter Lowe, Johnson Siamachira, Love Kumar Singh/BISA, Sam Storr, CIMMYT Archives

ISSN#

0188-9214

Correct citation

CIMMYT. 2020. Seeds of change. CIMMYT Annual Report 2019. CDMX, Mexico: CIMMYT.

AGROVOC descriptors:

Maize; Wheat; Plant breeding; Genetic resources; Innovation adoption; Plant biotechnology; Seed production; Food security; Sustainability; Research policies; Economic analysis; Cropping systems; Agricultural research; Organization of research; Developing countries. Additional Keywords: CIMMYT. AGRIS category codes: A50 Agricultural Research; A01 Agriculture– General Aspects. Dewey decimal classification: 630

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ACIAR

Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research

AGROSAVIA

Colombian Agricultural Research Corporation (Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria)

ATA

Agricultural Transformation Agency

BISA

Borlaug Institute in South Asia

BrAPI

Breeding Advanced Programming Interface

CCAFS

CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security

CIAT

International Center for Tropical Agriculture

CIMMYT

International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center

CRP

CGIAR Research Program

CSISA

Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia

CSSRI

Central Soil Salinity Research Institute

EIAR

Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research

EiB

CGIAR Excellence in Breeding Platform

FACASI

Farm Mechanization and Conservation Agriculture for Sustainable Intensification

FAO

Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations

ICAR

Indian Council of Agricultural Research

ICARDA

International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas

IFPRI

International Food Policy Research Institute

IIASA

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

IITA

International Institute for Tropical Agriculture

INIFAP

Mexico's National Forestry, Crops and Livestock Research Institute (Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias)

IRRI

International Rice Research Institute

MAIZE

CGIAR Research Program on Maize

MENA

Middle East and North Africa

MDGs

Millennium Development Goals

ODK

Open Data Kit

OPV

Open-pollinated variety

PET

Polyethylene terephthalate

PIM

CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets

R&D

Research and Development

SADER

Mexico's Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development (Secretaría de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural)

SDGs

Sustainable Development Goals

SDSN

Sustainable Development Solutions Network

SMS

Straw Management System

STMA

Stress Tolerant Maize for Africa

TReNDS

Thematic Research Network on Data and Statistics

UN

United Nations

USAID

United States Agency for International Development

WHEAT

CGIAR Research Program on Wheat

On September 24, 2013, the newly formed United Nations (UN) High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development held its first meeting. At the Rio+20 Conference, Member States also agreed to launch a process to develop a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were to build upon the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that were established in 2000 and expired in 2015.

Of the 17 individual goals, 10 relate directly to CGIAR activities and to CIMMYT’s mandate. The SDGs have set the pathway for the next 15 years of agricultural, social, and economic development. Likewise, CGIAR has transformed its approach to ensure that its work aligns with the ambitious goals.

CIMMYT, through its research for development activities, is working toward a world free of poverty, hunger, and environmental degradation. CIMMYT and CGIAR efforts help bring the world closer to reaching the goals, such as the empowerment of women, the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and the improvement of health and nutrition for the world’s poorest people.

CIMMYT’s work contributes to the following SDGs:

CIMMYT — the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center — is the global leader in publicly-funded maize and wheat research and related farming systems. Headquartered near Mexico City, CIMMYT works with hundreds of partners throughout the developing world to sustainably increase the productivity of maize and wheat cropping systems, thus improving global food security and reducing poverty. CIMMYT is a member of the CGIAR System and leads the CGIAR Research Programs on Maize and Wheat and the Excellence in Breeding Platform. The Center receives support from national governments, foundations, development banks and other public and private agencies.

For more information, visit www.cimmyt.org.