{"id":13053,"date":"2026-06-20T12:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/drought-tolerant-maize-wins-2012-uk-climate-change-award\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T12:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:26:16","slug":"drought-tolerant-maize-wins-2012-uk-climate-change-award","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/drought-tolerant-maize-wins-2012-uk-climate-change-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought tolerant maize wins 2012 UK Climate Change Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newint.iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/maize-Farmer.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9730 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/newint.iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/maize-Farmer.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" width=\"250\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United Kingdom\u2019s Department for International Development (DFID) has won Best Technological Breakthrough at the UK Climate Week Awards for its support to the &#8220;Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa&#8221; (DTMA) Project, an initiative jointly implemented by the International Maize  and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)  and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prize was announced at the Climate Week Awards, held in London on Monday, 12 March, to celebrate the UK\u2019s most effective  and ambitious organizations, communities,  and individuals  and their efforts to combat climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DTMA, the winning initiative, is responsible for the development  and dissemination of 34 new drought-tolerant maize varieties to farmers in 13 project countries\u2014Angola, Benin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Ug anda, Zambia,  and Zimbabwe\u2014between 2007  and 2011. An estimated 2 million smallholder farmers are using the drought-tolerant maize varieties  and have obtained higher yields, improved food security,  and increased incomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The DTMA project is presently funded by the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation  and is also receiving complementary grants from the Howard G. Buffet Foundation  and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis maize is like an insurance against hunger  and total crop failure, even under hot, dry conditions like those of recent years\u201d, says 79-year-old Rashid Said Mpinga, a maize farmer in Morogoro, Tanzania, who has been growing maize for almost half a century. &#8220;Without good quality maize seed, you cannot earn enough, you cannot have life.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a continent where maize is the staple crop for over 300 million people  and nearly all of it is grown without irrigation, relying solely on precipitation, drought tolerant varieties are invaluable. In 2011 alone, more than 12.5 million people suffered the effects of drought  and resulting famines in the Horn of Africa, with the drought being termed the worst in 60 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project uses conventional breeding, where varieties with good drought tolerance characteristics are cross-bred to get final products which are both productive  and nutritious  and grow well in African conditions. In particular, the DTMA provide farmers with better yields than leading commercial varieties under moderate drought conditions, while giving outst anding harvests when rains are good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Partners in developing, marketing, or distributing seed include private companies, publicly funded agricultural research  and extension systems, ministries of agriculture, NGOs,  and community-based seed producers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, the efforts of DTMA build on long-term support from the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation, the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation  and Development, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the Rockefeller Foundation, USAID, UNDP,  and the Eiselen Foundation.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom\u2019s Department for International Development (DFID) has won Best Technological Breakthrough at the UK Climate Week Awards for its support to the &#8220;Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa&#8221; (DTMA) Project, an initiative jointly implemented by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"tags":[],"science-area":[],"program":[],"location":[],"news-type":[],"hub":[],"crop":[68],"impact-areas":[],"item-year":[190],"class_list":["post-13053","news-item","type-news-item","status-publish","hentry","crop-maize","item-year-190"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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