MAIZE's strategy is to increase maize productivity, sustainability, and food security through three research strategies: 1) Sustainable intensification of maize-legume systems in Africa and South Asia, 2) Developing stress-resistant and nutritious maize varieties, and 3) Ensuring disadvantaged farmers have access to new technologies and markets. The program works with over 300 partners and aims to double maize productivity and improve livelihoods for millions of smallholder farmers.

1. OUR STRATEGY
MAIZE’s strategy is to ensure that publicly-funded international agricultural research works most efficiently in
maize-based systems (in Africa,Latin America and South Asia) and:
stabilizes maize prices and
improve livelihoods
doubles maize
productivity
increases sustainability and resource use
efficiency
A sustainable
strategy for food
security
Farmers need new varieties and technologies to adapt to
changing climates,drought,flooding and new diseases and to sustainably grow
more with less to improve food and nutritional security.
3 research strategies meet these key challenges.
Sustainable Intensification of Maize-Based Farming Systems
1
Sustainable intensification of maize-legume based
cropping systems for food security in eastern and southern Africa (SIMLESA)
40,000
farmers
40
varieties
innovation
platforms
capacity building
activities
Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA)
750mechanized service providers
technical and
business skills
sustainable
intensification
technologies
185,000
farmers in India
Supports
DONORSACIAR - Australian Center for International
Agricultural Research
AFDB - African Development Bank Group
AGRA - Alliance for a Green Revolution in
Africa
AWF - African Wildlife Foundation
BMGF - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
CAAS - Chinese Academy of Agricultural
Sciences
CGIAR - Global Agriculture Research
Partnership
Cornell University
GCP - Generation Challenge Programme
GIZ - The German Society for International
Cooperation
Government of Nigeria
GRiSP - Global Rice & Science Partnership
ICAR - Indian Council Agricultural Research
IFAD - International Fund for Agricultural
Development
SAGARPA - Secretariat of Agriculture,
Livestock,Rural Development,Fisheries and
Food in Mexico
SDC - The Swiss Agency for Development
and Cooperation
SFSA - Syngenta Foundation for
Sustainable Agriculture
USAID - United States Agency for
International Development
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3
MAIZE targets
Inclusive and Profitable Maize Futures
This strategy delivers data and information for improved targeting of MAIZE interventions,and
generates insights to enhance maize technology adoption,inclusiveness,gender equity,market
access and reduce vulnerability.
In developing countries
US $330 billion
is lost each year to
Food spoilage
and Waste
to achieve
25%reduced losses
Improved
Storage
Biocontrol
(Aflasafe)
+ Safe and profitable
value chains
GENDER IN MAIZE
13%of MAIZE budget is
allocated to gender
30%
of participants in
capacity-building
activities in 2013
were female
A gender audit of MAIZE has been
completed to assess gender targeting
within the CRP
MAIZE participates in a joint cross-CRP study
exploring gender in agricultural innovation in 60
villages around the world
MAIZE values the role of gender for
farm households and for developing,
testing and promoting technologies
Women’s empowerment
and better household
decision making
MAIZE works with
partners to integrate
gender in all projects
Stress Resilient and Nutritious Maize
2 MAIZE supports and strengthens breeding programs in Africa,Asia and Latin America but also aligns with
and strengthens local maize seed systems in the target areas.
28,883
Accessions under
research
1,433
Lines in FieldTesting
63
Varieties released
Disadvantaged Farmers
2013
CIMMYT internal data 2013
180
Small to medium Seed
companies
226Community-based seed
producers
100
collaborators
Take it to the Farmer Initiative
150,000REACHING
175
Demonstration
modules
Experimental
platforms
31
100
Soil fertility
experiments
maize farmers
Staple food for 900 million people living on less
than $2 a day
The World of MAIZE
Maize, Rice andWheat provide
of calories for 4.5 billion people in 94 developing coun-
tries
30%
LATIN AMERICA
ANNUAL PRODUCTION
INCREASE (2002-2012)
+4.5%
AREA HARVESTED (2012)
37.3m hectares
CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA
(2009)
47.6 kg/year
ANNUAL PRODUCTION
INCREASE (2002-2012)
+4.9%
AREA HARVESTED (2012)
32.5m hectares
CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA
(2009)
39.7 kg/year
SUB-SAHARAN
AFRICA
ANNUAL PRODUCTION
INCREASE (2002-2012)
+5.7%
AREA HARVESTED (2012)
57.6m hectares
CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA
(2009)
9.3 kg/year
ASIA
Importance of maize as a source of
calories where MAIZE CRP works
1 2 3 4 FAOSTAT 2013
MAIZE TARGETS WITH
275
maize dependent poor
smallholders in
stress-prone areas and
lacking market access
million
367
smallholders held back by lack
of access to technology
Information services
Improved technologies
Market
opportunities
New varieties
Poor maize
consumers
vulnerable to
price changesmillion
TO HELP
Maize yields need to increase
by 60% by 2050 to meet
demand
90%of poor maize farmers
live in tropical climates most
vulnerable to climate change
Growing use as a livestock
feed:440 million tons
produced in 2014
Biofuels:1 ton of maize = 370
liters of ethanol
New disease in Kenya:loss of
56,730tons,or US$ 23.5
million in 2012 due to maize
lethal necrosis virus
Launched in 2012,
MAIZE is a CGIAR
Research
Program (CRP)
led by: 300
over
partners
130 National Agricultural Research
Institutes
18
Regional and International
Organizations
46 Private Sector
Organizations
42 NGOs and Farmer
Associations
75 Universities
21 Advanced Research
Institutes
WHO WE ARE
International Maize and Wheat
Improvement Center
International Institute for
Tropical Agriculture
A global agriculture
research partnership
CGIAR RESEARCH PROGRAM ON MAIZE
MAIZE identifies strategic research and development gaps and partners help
fill those gaps with both upstream and downstream research.
Competitive
Grants
Initiative
Institutions have been awar-
ded a MAIZE
Competitive Grant in 2013.
46 Stakeholder
collaboration in
innovation platforms
in MAIZE projects
(KIT)
RoyalTropical Institute
Sustainable
intensification
practices in
southern Africa:
less labor and
higher yields
Public-private
partnership:The
Nutrient Expert
decision support
tool with IPNI in
South Asia
International Plant Nutrition
Institute
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