In France, a Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB) project on bread wheat, involving farmers, facilitators and researchers, has led to the development of heterogeneous populations whose within-variety genetic diversity is expected to confer the ability to adapt to farmers’...

Participatory plant breeding (PPB) is based on the decentralization of selection in farmers’ fields and their involvement in decision-making at all steps of the breeding scheme. Despite the evidence of its benefits to develop population varieties adapted to...

The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) released nine new maize lines, which are especially valuable for breeders seeking drought tolerance or tar spot complex disease resistance.  The new inbred lines are not intended to be used directly in...

In Mexico, smallholder farmers use a variety of technologies to store their maize grain for several months, which may result in high losses in quantity and quality of grain. This paper evaluates ten grain storage technologies for maize across agroecological...

In 2019, the CGIAR Research Program on Wheat supported its national partners to release 50 new CGIAR-derived wheat varieties to farmers and developed 13 innovations related to farming management practices or social sciences. This report highlights cutting-edge work by researchers...