CIMMYT Annual Report 2005-2006: Maize and wheat science for farmers, food, and livelihoods
In the strategic plan, “Seeds of Innovation,” CIMMYT outlined a focus and set its overall goals in conjunction with partners. Now we have taken the vision expressed in that document—one that sees CIMMYT as a key player in a set of global partnerships to improve the livelihoods of families who depend on maize and wheat farming systems—and made it operational. CIMMYT took inputs from donors and research-for-development partners very seriously, in particular the recommendations from the center’s fifth external program and management review (EPMR). That feedback and in-house expertise were applied to develop a clear, detailed business plan for CIMMYT research, which will focus on the development, delivery, and deployment with partners of nine, crucially important flagship products. Eight-hundred million of the world’s inhabitants still suffer hunger, many of them children whose poverty robs them of the opportunity to achieve their true potential. Millions of the impoverished of all ages, many of them women, live lives of overwhelming drudgery and physical labor on small farms in the developing world. Malnutrition and under nutrition impair their health and productivity. At the same time, rapid urbanization in the developing world has increased the need for affordable food in the cities, food that farmers in those countries want to produce but cannot because of the severe constraints they face. In the coming years, CIMMYT will focus its research on products that directly address these areas of desperate need. The products will be readily available and adoptable for the farmers of the developing world. This annual report describes the products, why they are needed, how we plan to develop them, and what we expect to achieve. For the first time, the report also comes with a CD ROM that contains the full text of CIMMYT’s business and medium-term plans, new studies on the impacts of the center’s work, reports from our monthly electronic newsletter, and other documents that provide an overview of activities and accomplishments in the past year, as well as what we expect to accomplish in coming years.
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dig-cimmyt-10883-6542023-08-23T17:28:36Z CIMMYT Annual Report 2005-2006: Maize and wheat science for farmers, food, and livelihoods Mowbray, D. Listman, G.M. Ouya, D. AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY TRITICOSECALE PLANT BREEDING TRITICUM AESTIVUM CEREALS ZEA MAYS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES TRITICOSECALE PLANT BREEDING TRITICUM AESTIVUM CEREALS ZEA MAYS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES In the strategic plan, “Seeds of Innovation,” CIMMYT outlined a focus and set its overall goals in conjunction with partners. Now we have taken the vision expressed in that document—one that sees CIMMYT as a key player in a set of global partnerships to improve the livelihoods of families who depend on maize and wheat farming systems—and made it operational. CIMMYT took inputs from donors and research-for-development partners very seriously, in particular the recommendations from the center’s fifth external program and management review (EPMR). That feedback and in-house expertise were applied to develop a clear, detailed business plan for CIMMYT research, which will focus on the development, delivery, and deployment with partners of nine, crucially important flagship products. Eight-hundred million of the world’s inhabitants still suffer hunger, many of them children whose poverty robs them of the opportunity to achieve their true potential. Millions of the impoverished of all ages, many of them women, live lives of overwhelming drudgery and physical labor on small farms in the developing world. Malnutrition and under nutrition impair their health and productivity. At the same time, rapid urbanization in the developing world has increased the need for affordable food in the cities, food that farmers in those countries want to produce but cannot because of the severe constraints they face. In the coming years, CIMMYT will focus its research on products that directly address these areas of desperate need. The products will be readily available and adoptable for the farmers of the developing world. This annual report describes the products, why they are needed, how we plan to develop them, and what we expect to achieve. For the first time, the report also comes with a CD ROM that contains the full text of CIMMYT’s business and medium-term plans, new studies on the impacts of the center’s work, reports from our monthly electronic newsletter, and other documents that provide an overview of activities and accomplishments in the past year, as well as what we expect to accomplish in coming years. 26 pages 2012-01-06T04:27:46Z 2012-01-06T04:27:46Z 2005 Annual Report 0188-9214 http://hdl.handle.net/10883/654 English CIMMYT Annual Report CIMMYT manages Intellectual Assets as International Public Goods. The user is free to download, print, store and share this work. In case you want to translate or create any other derivative work and share or distribute such translation/derivative work, please contact CIMMYT-Knowledge-Center@cgiar.org indicating the work you want to use and the kind of use you intend; CIMMYT will contact you with the suitable license for that purpose. Open Access PDF Mexico, DF (Mexico) CIMMYT |
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In the strategic plan, “Seeds of Innovation,” CIMMYT outlined a focus and set its overall goals in conjunction with partners. Now we have taken the vision expressed in that document—one that sees CIMMYT as a key player in a set of global partnerships to improve the livelihoods of families who depend on maize and wheat farming systems—and made it operational. CIMMYT took inputs from donors and research-for-development partners very seriously, in particular the recommendations from the center’s fifth external program and management review (EPMR). That feedback and in-house expertise were applied to develop a clear, detailed business plan for CIMMYT research, which will focus on the development, delivery, and deployment with partners of nine, crucially important flagship products. Eight-hundred million of the world’s inhabitants still suffer hunger, many of them children whose poverty robs them of the opportunity to achieve their true potential. Millions of the impoverished of all ages, many of them women, live lives of overwhelming drudgery and physical labor on small farms in the developing world. Malnutrition and under nutrition impair their health and productivity. At the same time, rapid urbanization in the developing world has increased the need for affordable food in the cities, food that farmers in those countries want to produce but cannot because of the severe constraints they face. In the coming years, CIMMYT will focus its research on products that directly address these areas of desperate need. The products will be readily available and adoptable for the farmers of the developing world. This annual report describes the products, why they are needed, how we plan to develop them, and what we expect to achieve. For the first time, the report also comes with a CD ROM that contains the full text of CIMMYT’s business and medium-term plans, new studies on the impacts of the center’s work, reports from our monthly electronic newsletter, and other documents that provide an overview of activities and accomplishments in the past year, as well as what we expect to accomplish in coming years. |
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