International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center

Overview
Headquarters: 
Mexico City, Mexico
Website: 
cimmyt.org
Size: 
1001-5000 employees
Founded: 
1966
Areas of Focus: 
Food / Agriculture / Nutrition
Populations Served: 
All Populations
About Us
Mission: 

Maize and Wheat Science for Improved Livelihoods.

Programs: 

CIMMYT works throughout the developing world to improve livelihoods and foster more productive, sustainable maize and wheat farming. Our portfolio squarely targets critical challenges, including food insecurity and malnutrition, climate change and environmental degradation.

Through collaborative research, partnerships, and training, the center helps to build and strengthen a new generation of national agricultural research and extension services in maize- and wheat-growing nations. As a member of the CGIAR System composed of 15 agricultural research centers, CIMMYT leads the CGIAR Research Programs on Maize and Wheat, which align and add value to the efforts of more than 500 partners.

Awards & Accolades: 
By conservative estimates, this work provides at least $2 billion in annual benefits to farmers.
CIMMYT alumni include a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and three World Food Prize winners.
CIMMYT’s success depends on the longstanding partnerships and trust of public agricultural research systems, private companies, advanced research institutes and academia, and non-governmental and farmer organizations.
More than 70 percent of the wheat grown in developing countries and more than 50 percent of improved maize varieties derive from CIMMYT breeding materials.
More than 10,000 scientists have trained at CIMMYT and gone on to become leaders in their own countries. The center empowers thousands of students, extension workers and farmers through courses, workshops and field days.
Why Work For Us?: 
  • You would like to be part of a team of more than 1,200 professionals from 38 countries.
  • You would like to join a scientific research team that has shaped the pedigrees of leading maize and wheat varieties in developing countries and helps reduce world grain prices.
  • If you have the scientific training, experience, and desire to develop and share such global public goods as innovative cropping systems to support sustainable intensification by smallholder farmers.
  • If you like travel, diversity and a dynamic work environment.
  • If you are not a scientist but would like to work as part of a team conducting agricultural research to help improve livelihoods!
industry: 
Nonprofit