LGC, Biosearch Technologies to feature African PBA Class IV graduates Drs. Inge Gazendam and Santatra Ravelomanantsoa in webinar “Celebrating advances… Read More »LGC, Biosearch Technologies to feature African PBA Class IV graduates
Nairobi, Kenya. 24 March 2020 — Malnutrition in many African nations is widespread but can be addressed by diversifying food… Read More »MEDIA RELEASE| Enhancing African orphan crops with genomics
Thirty-two scientists from 21 countries graduated from the African Plant Breeding Academy, led by UC Davis on 13 December 2019.… Read More »Building an Africa without hunger
Training scientists in advanced plant genomics is set to transform nutrition in Africa. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the… Read More »Eradicating hunger through the African Orphan Crops Consortium
Abstract New and orphan crops, which in the past have received only limited research attention, have great potential to support… Read More »Breeders’ views on the production of new and orphan crops in Africa: a survey of constraints and opportunities
Abstract Better integrating currently under-researched nutrient-rich new and orphan crops (NOC) into food systems could play an important role in… Read More »Supporting human nutrition in Africa through the integration of new and orphan crops into food systems: placing the work of the African Orphan Crops Consortium in context
Common Name:Natal orange Description Strychnos cocculoides is a shrub or small tree, 2-8 m high, with a compact, rounded crown;… Read More »Strychnos cocculoides
Common Name:Nsaban, kabaa Description Saba senegalensis is a liana up to 40 m long, often shrub like; trunk up to… Read More »Saba senegalensis
Common Name:Tef Description Eragrostis tef is an annual cereal grass belonging to the family of the Poaceae.Teff is a C4 plant and is an intermediate between… Read More »Eragrostis tef
Common Name:Sweet Detar Description Detarium microcarpum (Bambara: Ntamajalan), commonly known as sweet detar, sweet dattock or tallow tree, is an under-utilized tree legume that… Read More »Detarium microcarpum