You know that saying about you can give someone a fish or teach them how to fish? Both are pretty patronizing! CIMMYT works with farmers around the world to figure out together the best way to farm for the future. Please support food security for all www.cimmyt.org/make-a-donat...

More pests destroying more crops — that’s what we’re up against #foodsecurity www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

What could food sovereignty look like for Mexico? Hint: it all comes back to smallholder farmers

#Sudan #foodsrcurity it’s possible to plant seeds of future stability even in the most war-torn places

🌱 Hope docks in Sudan! Sustain Africa, with implementing partner @CIMMYT, delivers 37,000 MT of fertilizer + 5,200 MT of seed potatoes, helping farmers restart production and rebuild food security after years of conflict. https://on.cgiar.org/4qcpPMO

New video @cimmyt.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=hrKj...

Ever had someone else write exactly what you wish you could make people understand? Me either! Until now… this piece just nails what I wish people knew about @cimmyt.bsky.social & food security lopezdoriga.com/economia-y-f...

The King of Belgium made Bram Govaerts a Commander of the Order of the Crown this week for scientific achievement & service to humanity — a great honor, and I hope he can continue his future-saving work @cimmyt.bsky.social (photo by Dinorah Guzman)

Two of the most important global food systems leaders on why agriculture is foundational to security www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

Humanity is brilliant at consuming nature & converting it to value, says Sylvia Earle at Global Future Council meeting, “the biggest security question of our time is whether nature will consume us” @weforum.org

Male moderator just said we need more women in science decision making roles. Could start with having more women on this panel

Here in NYC climate week & UNGA, the soccer ball everyone is chasing is private sector investment to replace govt funding. For my own organization, we can make that work. But what does that mean for public goods? For goods & services that take care of people but can’t be monetized?

Luyanda Mndzebele is a farmer in Eswatini and a Youth Leader in the Global Partnership for Education — this is the future

New $100M @rockefellerfdn.bsky.social program announced — better school meals are a win-win-win solution (child health & education, smallholder farmers, climate action) www.rockefellerfoundation.org/news/from-cl...

Minister for Green Transition in #Denmark Jeppe Bruus pointed to a Novo Nordisk Foundation regenerative school meals project in Eastern Africa @cimmyt.bsky.social is part of! Thank you, Minister

#Somalia committed to working with smallholder farmers to feed schoolchildren but “we know we cannot do this alone,” says Minister Farah Sheikh Abdulkadir @rockefellerfdn.bsky.social

Next up: Minister for Economic Cooperation & Development #Germany Reem Alabali Radovan committing for Germany to global school meals program with @rockefellerfdn.bsky.social

“For millions of children, hunger is a daily cruelty…schools are one of the most effective delivery mechanisms we have for delivering child health & nutrition,” says former President of Tanzania Jakaya Kikwete @rockefellerfdn.bsky.social

“Each seed is a meal for the future,” says Janja Lula da Silva, First Lady of Brazil, about the importance of healthy, regenerative meals for students @rockefellerfdn.bsky.social

The Science Advisor to PM Modi tells a meeting of farmers & agriculture innovators about how AI will help them — it starts with trust, privacy, and security @cimmyt.bsky.social #BISA #worldfoodprize #icarindia

What does MasAgro mean in Africa? If you’re at the Africa Food Systems Forum, come and find out Sept 3rd at 9:00 am in the Main Exhibit Hall stage! #AFSF2025 @cimmyt.bsky.social

Art in real time at #ACSF2025

“Drought tolerant maize is a scalable technology,” says Gates Fdn Africa Director Paulin Basinga @cimmyt.bsky.social agrees!! We can do that — we ARE doing that with African partners #AFSF2025

The stage is set at the Africa Food Systems Forum! Join @cimmyt.bsky.social if you’re here in Senegal on Sept 3 for a great conversation about women, youth, & climate resilient agriculture in #Africa #AFSF2025

Happy #GlobalWheatDay! This wheat is actually sick — you have no idea how hard it is to keep wheat healthy enough to get to bread, pasta, chapati, ugali…

Wow, hear this food security podcast, don’t just listen — this is the vision that gets me to work every day from Bram Govaerts & @cimmyt.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

First day at CIMMYT as their new Chief Engagement Officer! They’re building farms of the future with smallholder farmers across the global south (to the benefit of US agriculture, too). Delighted to join this global food security group, with their hands-on approach to cutting edge science.

This omits critical minerals (other than potash & petroleum) — Canada is also a minerals superstar. It’s a comparative advantage to have those materials freely traded from a friend, ally & neighbor www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/w...

Microplastics are the time bomb planted beneath modernity. “For instance, zinc oxide accounts for around 0.7% of a tyre’s weight. Though it is essential for making tyres more durable, zinc oxide is highly toxic for fish and other aquatic life and disrupts ecosystems even in trace amounts.”

Brian Regan has a bit for you m.youtube.com/watch?v=vyma...

Mike Studeman, ex head of naval intelligence. 'anybody that tells you ‘near peer’ or this very trite and overused, you know, ‘pacing challenge’, in many areas the Chinese military has outpaced the US Military. And so we have to be realistic in many ways.' markurban.substack.com/p/chinas-cha...

🎉 @cgiar-emd.bsky.social has been named on the 2025 #TIME100 list of the world’s most influential people. A powerful recognition of her visionary leadership and CGIAR work in transforming food systems. Read more 👉 on.cgiar.org/3Epu6Kw #WithScienceWeCan on.cgiar.org/3Go0Jc1

Well that’s not good

Devastated to hear about the death of Rich Armitage. He was a larger than life character, in every sense. An honor of a lifetime working for him www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

An opportunity for GOP pols who’ve always opposed Law of the Sea to blow up the treaty? Will US warships guard mining ops? A return to privateers (which would blow up another treaty)?

An anonymous group of food industry execs published a memo warning about “a threat to food security like none other we have seen” in the UK, citing degrading soil health, water scarcity, heating, and extreme weather. Mitigation strategies don’t meet level of risk www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/whistle...

Great piece on water security at a geopolitical fulcrum — Nepal!

Vanilla comes from this orchid. Hard to grow, labor intensive to harvest, needs heat & humidity. Madagascar is the major world producer, also has graphite & nickel reserves, very low income country nonetheless. ⬆️47% US tariff

Wonder if the Europeans are rushing in to try to cut a deal first? Natural gas, antimony, pistachios, mmmm

"Integrated assessment models, used to guide how much governments should invest in cutting GHG emissions, have failed to capture major risks from climate change. Potential economic benefits of urgent climate policy action have also been significantly understated" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the lowest on record (JAXA data) • about 570,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 970,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,540,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 1,920,000 km² below the 1980s mean Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🧪⚒️🌊

Russia is a minerals powerhouse — or it could be. These are huge, decadal projects, and Russia’s investment environment is not exactly a safe bet

Oh wow — an element of the GOP has long opposed the Law of the Sea; this move for deep sea mining access from TMC may give them a hammer to break it. Would be consistent with new critical minerals EO

Sounds like a pretty weak hand at the negotiating table

Deep-Sea mining and its impact on the midwater! theconversation.com/deep-sea-min...

Heard Sen Grassley speak yesterday to an agriculture group & he noted there’s a saying: “society is nine meals away from revolution.” Felt pretty ominous in current circumstances! (even though he qualified it won’t happen here)

I believe “war plans” refers to a limited number of strategic & theater level plans on the shelf? That would be the China plan Musk was going to hear not the Yemen strike. Sounds like the Signal chat disclosed OPORDS not warplans. So, a technicality not a lie. Still very classified tho

Sen Klobuchar #DialogueNext has confidence some of her Republican colleagues will “rise up” for food security & calls coming SCOTUS cases “a stress test for democracy” “Immigrants don’t diminish America; they ARE America” Farmers are in the “headwinds” of tariffs, avian flu, US cuts

Here for bipartisan food security #dialoguenextdc hosted by @WORLDFOODPRIZE. “Here” at the Willard — was supposed to be at the US Institute of Peace. Hard to get past that

Even 'safe' #climate scenarios may overshoot 2°C warming: New PIK study shows feedback loops like #permafrost thaw could amplify global heating throughout this millennium. Paris agreement only possible with very low emissions + low climate sensitivity. www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...