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From planting to harvesting, it takes hard work to get cowpea onto plates. Cowpea is one of the world’s most important pulses, nourishing more than 200 million people in sub-Saharan Africa alone. Eaten both as a green vegetable and as a grain, cowpea offers a wide range of uses as an affordable crop important for household nutrition and food…

Gates Agricultural Innovations (Gates Ag One) is a non-profit organization that accelerates breakthrough agricultural research to meet the urgent and neglected needs of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Out of the conviction that all lives have equal value, Gates Ag One serves the interests of smallholder farmers, who are most exposed to climate…

Researchers are working on crop solutions by harnessing what history and nature have already suggested are possible. Giving non-legume crops the same ability to bond with helpful nitrogen fixing bacteria as legumes has the potential to unlock benefits for this generation and beyond. Learn more about this fascinating area of scientific discovery.