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What if food and feed could grow continuously, be harvested at any time of year, and provide both protein and energy from a single plant?

In Serera Kebele, in Doyogena district of the Central Ethiopia Region, Abebe explains “It started with a mindset shift, seeing two sheep not as animals, but as a start of a business."

Five-day hands-on training equips scientists from Asia and Africa with practical genomics skills to improve the use of germplasm for breeding and food security.

The story began in 2022, when farmers in Agoro East made an unusual decision: instead of dividing the land further, they chose to bring it together. 108 farmers pooled their individual plots into a single, collectively managed 52-acre farm, forming the Agoro East Aggregated Farm (AEAF).

Two panicum grass varieties Chano (Panicum maximum Jack) and Gardula (Dichanthelium latifolium) have been released for cultivation in Southern and Central Ethiopia.

The Kabudi-Agoro Community Seed Bank has become a global beacon for turning once "illegal" traditional practices into a viable economic future.

Innovation bundles are integrated technological, socioecological, and policy solutions to harmonize environmental health with human development, and a powerful example of this vision is unfolding in Nyakach, Kisumu County, Kenya.

Women, who account for approximately 80% of Kenya’s agricultural labour force, lead the Kabudi-Agoro Seed Bank. A group of 25 women now conserves over 100 varieties of indigenous, climate-adapted seeds, including 69 bean varieties and 18 sorghum varieties.