This booklet provides an overview of ten crop varieties as selected by the Kenyan Seed Savers Network. Through their effort of documenting and characterising local underutilised seed varieties, the Seed Savers Network delivers a significant contribution to the preservation of...

The 2019 Annual Report by CGIAR Research Program on Maize (MAIZE) highlights their great advances in the development of improved stress-tolerant maize varieties, with enhanced genetic gain and novel genetic diversity and tools. CGIAR's national partners and seed companies across...

Agriculture is a major source of income and employment in low- and middle-income countries. Policymakers have long sought to reproduce the agricultural productivity gains of the Green Revolution—a technology package centered on new high-yielding varieties that increased agricultural productivity in...

Conservation Agriculture (CA) is a farming system that promotes minimum soil disturbance, permanent soil cover, and diversification of plant species can efficiently increase agricultural productivity while reducing land degradation and improving soil health for more productive, profitable, and sustainable farming....

Cassava is one of the most important starchy root crops in the tropics due to its adaptation to marginal environments. This study examines the genetic architecture of 14 continuous and categorical traits, including defense against biotic stresses, agro-morphological and quality-related...