A May merger meeting, with a healthy dose of capacity building: The Tropical Legumes I (TLI) and Tropical Legumes II (TLII) integration meeting opens today, 20th May, in Uganda. TLI is led by GCP and covers research for drought- and disease-tolerant be…
Patricia Ondere has been growing maize, beans and groundnuts on her two-acre farm in Sega, Siaya County, Kenya. She’s lately added sorghum. Samuel Gudu, genetics and plant breeding expert, says sorghum has enormous potential. Many farmers over-…
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“Chickpeas are the world’s second most widely grown legumes, providing protein and acting as a staple food in the developing world. Known as the ‘orphan crop’ due to their narrow genetic base, farmers have been forced to plant low…
CASSAVA IN THE CRUCIBLE: The deadly cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) is rapidly marching westwards in Africa, leaving massive losses in its wake, and aided, in part, by climate-change-induced higher temperatures. CBSD could halve production of a cro…
Calling genomics professionals and crop breeders: as part of GCP’s community-building efforts and implemented through our Integrated Breeding Platform (IBP), GCP’s Theme 1 ( Comparative and Applied Genomics ) has established the Agricultura…
