This report is the result of the workshop held at FAO HQ in Rome on September 2017. This workshop, organized by the DIVERSIFOOD partners together with the ITPGRFA and Bioversity International, represented a key opportunity to discuss with international institutions...

The International Maize and Wheat Development Center (CIMMYT) has the largest and most diverse publicly available maize collections in the world. However, all these resources are unlikely to be used by breeders without a proper characterization. To combat this, the...

Long considered a waste product, corn husks have been given a new lease on life through the Totomoxtle project. Named for the traditional indigenous Nahuatl word for corn husk, Totomoxtle turns the husks of native maize, found in a variety...

The Hill Maize Research Project (HMRP), funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) was initiated in 1999 with the objective of increasing the food security of farm families in the hills of Nepal by raising the productivity...

In Nepal, it takes at least a year to collate the demand and supply of a required type and quantity of seed. A new digital seed information system is likely to change that, as it will enable all value chain...