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Acronyms

AVISA
Accelerated Varietal Improvement and Seed Delivery of Legumes and Cereals in Africa project
BBSRC
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the United Kingdom
BISA

Borlaug Institute for South Asia

BoT

Board of Trustees

CA

Conservation agriculture

CEN-Mexico
Collaborative Evaluation Network in Mexico
CtEH

Crops to End Hunger

GHG

Greenhouse gas

CIMMYT
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo)
COVID-19

Coronavirus Disease 2019

CSA

Climate-smart agriculture

EIAR

Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research

FAO
Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations
FCDO

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

FFAR

Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research

GIZ

German Agency for International Cooperation (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH)

HTMA

Heat Tolerant Maize for Asia project

ICAR

Indian Council of Agricultural Research

ICARDA
International Center for Agricultural
Research in the Dry Areas
IITA
International Institute of Tropical
Agriculture
ISRA-CNRA
Senegalese Institute of Agricultural
Research (Institut Sénégalais de
Recherches Agricoles)
ICVCM
Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon
Market
IMIC

International Maize Improvement
Consortium

IWIN

International Wheat Improvement Network

JIRCAS
Japan International Research Center for
Agricultural Sciences
MAIZE

CGIAR Research Program on Maize

MCM

Maize Commercialization Mode

MDGs

Millennium Development Goals

MRV

Measurement, reporting and verification

NARES

National agricultural research and extension systems

NARO
National Agricultural Research Organisation (Uganda)
NARS

National agricultural research systems

NGO

Non-governmental organization

NSAF

Nepal Seed and Fertilizer project

SADER

Mexico’s Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development (Secretaría de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural)

SDGs

Sustainable Development Goals

SENASICA
Mexico’s National Service for Food and Agricultural Health, Safety and Quality (Servicio Nacional de Sanidad, Inocuidad y Calidad Agroalimentaria)
UAS-R

University of Agriculture Sciences, Raichur

UN

United Nations

USAID
United States Agency for International Development
VCM

Voluntary carbon market

WHEAT

CGIAR Research Program on Wheat

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Unless otherwise indicated, all currencies are expressed in U.S. dollars

Acknowledgement

Author

Jeffery Bentley

Editors-in-Chief

Sarah Fernandes, Julian Bañuelos-Uribe

Project coordinators

Mariana Callejas, Leslie Domínguez, Silvia Rico

Layout and design

Elena Taipe

Web development

Cultivate Communications

Photography

Francisco Alarcón, CIMMYT Archives, Alfonso Cortés, Peter Lowe, Carolina Sansaloni, UAS Raichur, Susan Otieno, Baloua Nebie, Christian Thierfelder

Contributors

Francisco Alarcón, Alison Bentley, Alberto Chassaigne, Dyutiman Choudhary, José Guadalupe Flores, Harish Gandhi, Louis Noel García, Maria Itria Ibba, Atul Kulkarni, Celine Lim, María López Muratalla, Dan Makumbi, Baloua Nebie, Chris Ojiewo, Ramiro Ortega, Kevin Pixley, BM Prasanna, Carolina Saint Pierre, Félix San Vicente, Carolina Sansaloni, Sieglinde Snapp, Tek Sapkota, Christian Thierfelder, Jelle Van Loon, Leah Wangui Waweru, PH Zaidi.

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