CIMMYT & CORTEVA Collaboration in Mexico Sign MoU (2016) CIMMYT recognizes value of aligning activities Review shared goals; with a reliable and impactful partner initiate collaboration (2017) CORTEVA recognizes scientific value of Focus on Su Sustain inable le CIMMYT’s products and capacity to scale Intensifi ificatio ion, Cap Capacit ity Bu Buildin ing and CORTEVA’s vision of technology promotion Technol olog ogy Prom romotion matches CIMMYT’s expectations to scale (2018) adoption CIMMYT has not and will not promote specifically a single private partner; it shows openly the results of competitive trials under different agroecological environments.
Identified 26 “quick win” zones in 1. Mexico, with conditions for scaling up better varieties to meet existing production demand Infrastructure Deficit deficit 64,000 t 1,671,000 t 2. Identified huge gaps in available infrastructure to handle additional demand from industries Deficit 344,000 t Deficit Deficit 465,000 t 389,000 t MasAgro, courtesy of A. Silva Hinojosa
CIMMYT and partners increase productivity and strengthen farmer-market linkages with a view to produce change at a systemic level to scale sustainability practices and improve smallholder income RS projects stimulate Setting the conditions for enhanced production new business models; systems and scaling create and validate an environment to: Test region-specific value chain competitiveness Promote collective action and traceability Market-validation of promising sustainable intensification technologies Sc Scali ling the model through generated tractor effect (smaller A B C companies follow the Diagnostics Develop Farmers form leader) and activate infrastructure collective production commercial to enable and marketing aggregation aggregation schemes MasAgro, courtesy of B. Govaerts
Scaling up! New business strategies to create agility, innovation and new thinking through responsible sourcing projects Updated June 8 th , 2018 MasAgro, courtesy of B. Govaerts
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