Wheat is the staff of life for 1.2 billion people who live on less than US$ 2 a day
Written by Dr. Thomas Lumpkin , Director General, CIMMYT “The history of wheat is the history of civilization. Over 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent, our ancestors ascended from an existence as hunter-gatherers and began tending and domesticating crops. Thus began wheat’s symbiotic relationship with the history of civilization and humankind’s responsibility as stewards […]