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Trevor Rowe (SARDI) measuring the plant height of alfalfa at the Waite Institute, Adelaide, South Australia. Photo: Michael Major for Crop Trust

Finger millet pre-breeding at Maseno University in western Kenya. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust

The seeds of the baobab are covered with a whitish-pink, dry, acidic pulp that is high in Vitamin C and makes a nice juice. Agnes Were, a laboratory assistant at ICRAF’s genebank in Nairobi displays an open baobab fruit. The seeds are soaked in water to remove the pulp. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust

Staff at the National Plant Genetic Resources Centre (NPGRC) of the Zambia Agriculture Research Institute (ZARI) check sweet potato growing in the NPGRC field genebank at ZARI’s Mt Makulu Central Research Station, Lusaka. (Photo: Neil Palmer/Crop Trust)

Finger millet in western Kenya. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust