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Ensuring the world’s food security

Advocacy/Communications Consultancy in Mexico about Agriculture, Climate Change and Environment and Food and Nutrition, requiring 3-4 years of experience, from CIMMYT; closing on 31 Mar 2021

In 1967 Albert O. Hirschman, the pioneering development economist, published Development Projects Observed. Based on an analysis of a handful of long-standing World Bank projects, the book was an effort, as Hirschman writes in the preface, “to ‘sing’ the epic adventure of development­ — its challenge, drama, and grandeur.” He sang this epic not in the register of high development theory,­ but rather through the ups and downs and unexpected twists of real-world development projects. Today, a new group of researchers have taken up a similar challenge. , a new book edited by Jason ...

Wheat fields at Toluca station, Mexico. (Photo: Fernando Delgado/CIMMYT) On December 11, 2020, the Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) announced the release of six new wheat varieties for multiplication and distribution to the country’s wheat farmers, offering increased production for Nepal’s nearly one million wheat farmers and boosted nutrition for its 28 million wheat consumers. The varieties, which are derived from materials developed by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), include five bred for elevated levels of the crucial micronutrient zinc, and Bo...