• What is Insect Pest Protection

    What is Insect Pest Protection

    Insect pests and weeds can wreak havoc on crops both in-season and after harvest in storage. Equipping crops with the ability to fend off this damage can help protect yields and grain quality.

  • What are source-sink relations?

    What are source-sink relations?

    Scientists are investigating ways to boost yields of cassava, a hardy and crucial crop for smallholder farmers across Africa, by improving a biological phenomenon known as “source-sink relations”. This process involves the distribution of energy produced during photosynthesis from the leaves to the roots, known as “source-sink”. Find out how researchers are working to get…

  • Saving Uganda’s Insurance Crop

    Saving Uganda’s Insurance Crop

    In Uganda, cassava is a lifeline, easy to grow, diverse in use, and vital for food security. But pests like the African cassava whitefly threaten harvests and livelihoods. Follow NARO scientists as they develop resistant varieties using cutting-edge breeding, genetic transformation, and AI tools to protect yields and secure farmers’ futures.

  • Journey of the Cowpea

    Journey of the Cowpea

    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 security.

  • About Gates Agricultural Innovations (Gates Ag One)

    About Gates Agricultural Innovations (Gates Ag One)

    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…

  • What is Nitrogen Fixation?

    What is Nitrogen Fixation?

    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.