Maize FINAL - cgiar
Research Program on
MAIZE
5. Double maize productivity: Better adapted and diverse maize hybrids. 6. Integrated postharvest management: Reduction of post-harvest losses of grain through better storage and management practices. 7. Nutritious maize: Bio-fortification of maize varieties in key nutrients and vitamins. 8. Seeds of Discovery: Unlocking the genetic code of maize to unleash the genetic diversity required to mitigate problems related to climate change. 9. New tools and methods for NARS: Small to medium scale public and private seed enterprises provided with the same tools available to multinational businesses to better serve smallholder farmers.
Partners
Target Areas
MAIZE - Global Alliance for Improving Food Security and the Livelihoods of the Resource-poor in the Developing World Target Areas
MAIZE is the first comprehensive network, with more than 350 partners, designed to double maize productivity by 2050 and address the needs of the world’s maize dependent poor and smallholder farmers. • The Maize genome project – unlocking the genetic code of maize and harnessing its genetic diversity for improved crops • Doubling maize production – introducing the latest seed varieties, precision agriculture techniques, and technologies for smallholder farmers
SI3+SI5 SI3+SI4+SI5 SI2+SI3+SI4+SI5
Why focus on maize?
• Maize, wheat, and rice provide 30% of the food calories of more than 4.5 billion people in 94 developing countries. • Between now and 2050, the demand for maize in the developing world will double. • By 2025, maize will have become the crop with the greatest production both globally and in the developing world. • For 900 million farmers and consumers in low- and middle-income countries, maize is a preferred crop or food. • Maize is produced on nearly 100 million hectares in 125 developing countries. • 67% of total maize production in the developing world comes from low to lowermiddle income countries.
Target Areas SI3+SI5 SI3+SI4+SI5 SI2+SI3+SI4+SI5
Initiatives
1. Socioeconomics: Better targeting of new technologies, policies, and innovations for maize dependent rural farmers and communities. 2. Sustainable intensification: Increase in income opportunities in maize-based farming systems where 315 million of the poorest and 22% of all malnourished children live. 3. Smallholder precision agriculture: Transmitting to farmers techniques and technologies to produce more maize on less land, using fewer resources. 4. Stress tolerant maize for the poorest: The development and dissemination of drought tolerant, disease-resistant maize varieties.
Potential impacts
Target Areas SI4 SI3+SI5 SI3+SI4+SI5 SI2+SI3+SI4+SI5
• Increased productivity of target populations by 7% in 2020 and 33% by 2030. • An added annual value of $2.0 billion by 2020 and 8.8 billion in 2030 • Reach 40 million smallholder farm family members by 2020 and 175 million by 2030 • Provide enough maize to meet the annual food demand of an additional 135 million consumers in 2020, increasing to an additional 600 million by 2030.
SAGARPA - Mexico, KARI Kenya, Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture 130 national agricultural research institutes. 18 regional and international organizations. 21 advanced agricultural research institutes. 75 universities. 46 private sector organizations. 42 NGOs and farmer associations. 11 countries that host MAIZE offices
Contact http://maize.cimmyt.org/ SEPTEMBER 2011
MAIZE
5. Double maize productivity: Better adapted and diverse maize hybrids. 6. Integrated postharvest management: Reduction of post-harvest losses of grain through better storage and management practices. 7. Nutritious maize: Bio-fortification of maize varieties in key nutrients and vitamins. 8. Seeds of Discovery: Unlocking the genetic code of maize to unleash the genetic diversity required to mitigate problems related to climate change. 9. New tools and methods for NARS: Small to medium scale public and private seed enterprises provided with the same tools available to multinational businesses to better serve smallholder farmers.
Partners
Target Areas
MAIZE - Global Alliance for Improving Food Security and the Livelihoods of the Resource-poor in the Developing World Target Areas
MAIZE is the first comprehensive network, with more than 350 partners, designed to double maize productivity by 2050 and address the needs of the world’s maize dependent poor and smallholder farmers. • The Maize genome project – unlocking the genetic code of maize and harnessing its genetic diversity for improved crops • Doubling maize production – introducing the latest seed varieties, precision agriculture techniques, and technologies for smallholder farmers
SI3+SI5 SI3+SI4+SI5 SI2+SI3+SI4+SI5
Why focus on maize?
• Maize, wheat, and rice provide 30% of the food calories of more than 4.5 billion people in 94 developing countries. • Between now and 2050, the demand for maize in the developing world will double. • By 2025, maize will have become the crop with the greatest production both globally and in the developing world. • For 900 million farmers and consumers in low- and middle-income countries, maize is a preferred crop or food. • Maize is produced on nearly 100 million hectares in 125 developing countries. • 67% of total maize production in the developing world comes from low to lowermiddle income countries.
Target Areas SI3+SI5 SI3+SI4+SI5 SI2+SI3+SI4+SI5
Initiatives
1. Socioeconomics: Better targeting of new technologies, policies, and innovations for maize dependent rural farmers and communities. 2. Sustainable intensification: Increase in income opportunities in maize-based farming systems where 315 million of the poorest and 22% of all malnourished children live. 3. Smallholder precision agriculture: Transmitting to farmers techniques and technologies to produce more maize on less land, using fewer resources. 4. Stress tolerant maize for the poorest: The development and dissemination of drought tolerant, disease-resistant maize varieties.
Potential impacts
Target Areas SI4 SI3+SI5 SI3+SI4+SI5 SI2+SI3+SI4+SI5
• Increased productivity of target populations by 7% in 2020 and 33% by 2030. • An added annual value of $2.0 billion by 2020 and 8.8 billion in 2030 • Reach 40 million smallholder farm family members by 2020 and 175 million by 2030 • Provide enough maize to meet the annual food demand of an additional 135 million consumers in 2020, increasing to an additional 600 million by 2030.
SAGARPA - Mexico, KARI Kenya, Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture 130 national agricultural research institutes. 18 regional and international organizations. 21 advanced agricultural research institutes. 75 universities. 46 private sector organizations. 42 NGOs and farmer associations. 11 countries that host MAIZE offices
Contact http://maize.cimmyt.org/ SEPTEMBER 2011
