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Farming in much of sub-Saharan Africa is not easy. But in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia, the risks have multiplied.

Pressures vary but point in the same direction – failed rains and depleted water sources in Kenya, droughts...

The Crop Trust facilitated the update of a global strategy to conserve the diversity of sorghum and its wild relatives.

The wild, weedy relatives of our cultivated crops display all kinds of useful traits their domesticated cousins lack – traits that could make our agriculture more resilient to future challenges.

But it takes a lot of time and...

Moïse Mounkoro held three cards in his hand – one red, one yellow and one white. He felt like he was the football umpire in his local village of Sokoro in east central Mali.

He pulled out a red card, not to eject a player from...

ICSWC 14RS 00020-3-47-1:201704 may be a mouthful, but to Kenyan farmers it could spell food security and better livelihood.

The National Plant Genetic Resources Centre (NPGRC) in Zambia is one of five national genebanks in Africa the Crop Trust is working with through its Seeds for Resilience (SFR) Project. This five-year project supports national...

The arid-zone grain sorghum can be made even more tolerant of drought, new research shows.

Drought tolerance in sorghum—the world’s fifth most important cereal crop—is measured in a number of different ways, including by looking...