As the world grapples with the effects of climate change with its devastating impact on food security, scientists have come together to avail weather resilient food crops so that people can sail ...

Most of the genetically modified (GM) crops approved to date (e.g., corn, cotton and soybean improved for insect resistance or herbicide tolerance) do not have compatible wild relatives near their ...

But food activists in South Africa say a return to traditional diets could help. Reporting from Johannesburg, Zaheer Cassim explores the benefits of sorghum and why this indigenous African grain ...

The crop does well in altitudes below 1500m and temperatures between 15 to 35 degrees Celsius states Green Life Crop Protection Africa. Sorghum is normally grown from seeds which are usually ...

Dr Tobias Doyer, CEO of Grain SA, said he expected Godongwana to expand on the themes he highlighted in the medium-term ...

President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk have shut down USAID and Food for Peace, meaning Kansas sorghum farmers lost ...

Among the cereal grains, sorghum ranks fifth in total world production, behind wheat, corn, rice and barley. Nearly 600 million bushels were harvested in the United States in 1999, from fields in the ...

By developing tools in the genome-sequenced variety BTx623 and elite germplasm adapted for Africa, this project accelerates the ability of sorghum researchers to translate knowledge into practical ...