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CIMMYT & CORTEVA Collaboration in Mexico

• CIMMYT recognizes value of aligning activities

with a reliable and impactful partner

• CORTEVA recognizes scientific value of

CIMMYT’s products and capacity to scale

• CORTEVA’s vision of technology promotion

matches CIMMYT’s expectations to scale adoption

• CIMMYT has not and will not promote

specifically a single private partner; it shows

• penly the results of competitive trials under

different agroecological environments.

 Sign MoU (2016)  Review shared goals; initiate collaboration (2017)  Focus on Su Sustain inable le Intensifi ificatio ion, Cap Capacit ity Bu Buildin ing and Technol

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romotion (2018)

1. Identified 26 “quick win” zones in Mexico, with conditions for scaling up better varieties to meet existing production demand 2. Identified huge gaps in available infrastructure to handle additional demand from industries

MasAgro, courtesy of A. Silva Hinojosa Deficit 344,000 t Deficit 465,000 t Deficit 389,000 t Deficit 64,000 t Infrastructure deficit 1,671,000 t

Setting the conditions for enhanced production systems and scaling

A

Diagnostics and activate commercial aggregation

B

Develop infrastructure to enable aggregation

C

Farmers form collective production and marketing schemes

RS projects stimulate new business models; create and validate an environment to:

• Test region-specific value

chain competitiveness

• Promote collective action

and traceability

• Market-validation of

promising sustainable intensification technologies

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Scali ling the model through generated tractor effect (smaller

companies follow the leader)

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

MasAgro, courtesy of B. Govaerts

New business strategies to create agility, innovation and new thinking through responsible sourcing projects

Updated June 8th, 2018

Scaling up!

MasAgro, courtesy of B. Govaerts