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Recently, the top investors in CIMMYT have
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A Worldwide Research Program
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• CIMMYT relies on more than 100 scientific staff
  from 40 nations and more than 600 support staff
• CIMMYT headquarters are in Mexico, and outreach
  staff are based in 17 countries
• In our research, we collaborate with as many as
  100 nations

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CIMMYT Headquarters, Mexico City.
New Delhi, India
Kathmandu, Nepal
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Beijing, China
Ankara, Turkey
Aleppo, Syria
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Guatemala City, Guatemala
CIMMYT
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Los Baños, Philippines
San José Costa Rica
Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Nairobi/Njoro, Kenya
Cali, Colombia
Harare, Zimbabwe
Montevideo, Uruguay
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Importance of Regional Research Programs
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• Our scientists in regional programs provide a key
  link to our national program partners, conducting
  joint research, facilitating the exchange of
  improved genetic materials and research results,
  and ensuring that our products meet the needs of
  those we strive to help

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CIMMYT Research Stations in Mexico
Cd. Obregón 39 m
El Batán 2249 m
Mexico City
Agua Fría 60 m
Toluca 2640 m
Tlaltizapán 940 m
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Impacts of Our Work
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• By 1982, Borlaugs wheats and their direct
  descendants had spread across 125 million acres
  of farmland. A single gene from a seemingly
  unimportant variety of wheat has saved 100
  million lives.
• Paul Raeburn, The Last Harvest

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CIMMYT Maize and Wheat Grown Worldwide
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• CIMMYT-related wheat varieties are planted on
  more than three-fourths of the area planted to
  modern wheat varieties in low-income countries
• CIMMYT-related maize varieties cover nearly half
  of the area planted to modern maize varieties in
  non-temperate environments of developing countries

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Additional Grain, Worth Billions, for Poor
Farmers and Consumers
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• Wheat breeding Estimates of the value of the
  additional grain production attributable to wheat
  breeding by CIMMYT and its partners range from
  US 2 billion to US 4 billion per year
• Maize breeding The economic value of the
  additional grain production attributable to maize
  breeding by CIMMYT and its partners is likely to
  exceed US 2 billion per year

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More Food, Better Nutrition for Poor People
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• Malnutrition in developing countries declined
  from 46.5 in 1970 to 31 in 1995, partly because
  more food was available to more people
• Food has become more affordable for consumers
  between 1982 and 1995, real world wheat prices
  fell by 28, and world maize prices dropped by 43

Source Smith and Haddad (2000),
Pinstrup-Andersen, Pandya-Lorch, and Rosegrant
(1999).
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Some Environmental Benefits
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• If the developing world had attempted to meet its
  food requirements in 1995 without the improved
  varieties of food crops developed since the Green
  Revolution, an additional 426 million hectares of
  cropped area would be needed (a five-fold
  increase over cropped area in 1965)
• This land savings helped to reduce greenhouse gas
  emissions by 35
• Without the Green Revolutionthe atmospheric
  concentration of greenhouse gases would be
  significantly higher than they are at present and
  the actual onset of climate change may have
  hastened.

Source Grace et al. (2000).
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Research Tools and Knowledge
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• CIMMYT information products and research networks
  improve the efficiency of researchers in more
  than 100 countries
• Information products include user-friendly
  geographic information systems (GIS), laboratory
  protocols, field guides for diseases and pests,
  guides to breeding methods and seed production,
  research manuals on economic analysis, and
  manuals for disease screening and control
• Our researchers have made numerous original
  contributions to the advancement of agricultural
  science, ranging from developing practical
  research techniques to clarifying the genetic
  basis of disease resistance in maize and wheat

Bad soil scenario
Crop models
Yield
Runoff
Simulation layer
Good soil scenario
Runoff
Yield
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Genetic Resources for Research
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• Between 1987 and 1998, CIMMYT delivered nearly
  40,000 shipments of wheat seed and more than
  20,000 shipments of maize seed to researchers in
  developing and developed countries
• The vast majority of these shipments went to
  public research programs in developing countries
• These shipments, which included improved
  materials developed by CIMMYT breeders and
  accessions from our germplasm banks, represented
  a valuable source of genetic resources for
  research organizations

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Human Resource Development
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• More than 9,000 researchers from around the world
  have benefited from CIMMYT's training efforts
• More than 600 persons have completed MS or PhD
  degrees with CIMMYT support
• CIMMYT alumni lead major breeding programs,
  public and private, throughout the world
• New courses in new areas of interest, such as
  marker-assisted breeding, are continually being
  developed

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Genetic Resources Research and Other Activities
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• Preserving and distributing maize and wheat seed
  collections CIMMYTs Wellhausen-Anderson Plant
  Genetic Resources Center (funded in part by the
  Japanese Government)
• Using wild relatives and landraces of maize and
  wheat in breeding programs to confer important
  traits (disease resistance, stress tolerance)
• Developing better information systems so that
  research partners can identify potentially useful
  germplasm
• Conserving and characterizingdiversity in situ.
• Developing measures of diversity at thefarm
  level and studying farm families management of
  genetic resources

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Organization
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• CIMMYT has 5 major research programs maize,
  wheat, economics, natural resources, and
  biotechnology. All work toward our common
  mission. The efforts of these programs are
  complemented by the work of various research
  support units.

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CIMMYT Governance
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• Board of Trustees Includes representatives from
  national agricultural research programs, the
  Government of Mexico (CIMMYTs host country),
  universities and other advanced research
  institutes, and philanthropic and
  non-governmental organizations
• Research Coordinating Committee Deals with the
  content and conduct of CIMMYTs research programs
• Management Advisory Committee Deals with
  administrative policies and budgeting

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CIMMYT Research Projects
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• CIMMYTs research is organized into 21
  multidisciplinary projects, including global,
  regional, and frontier projects
• Global and regional projects encompass research
  that is best conducted from either a worldwide or
  specifically regional perspective, though the
  interaction between the two kinds of projects is
  considerable
• Frontier projects often involve more novel
  research approaches or more specialized research
  objectives than global or regional projects all
  frontier projects are designed to produce results
  with specific regional and/or global applications