African sorghum is loaded with essential nutrients, such as fiber, protein, and vitamins. It makes for an excellent source of ...

Sorghum is the fifth most important cereal in the world. In sub-Saharan Africa, many farmers rely on this grain for food and feed. But Striga, a parasitic weed, can have a devastating impact on crop ...

Of all Africa's cereal grains, sorghum is the most important. It shares top billing with pearl millet in the drier zones and with maize in the wetter ones. In fact, Africa devotes more hectares to ...

In the rocky highlands of north-western Benin, where farmers have cultivated sorghum for generations without formal seed systems, a team of Beninese researchers has quietly completed one of the most ...

Europe's maize crops have been hit hard by this summer's heatwaves and ongoing drought, with French producers saying almost half of this year's harvest is unusable. To prepare for hotter, drier ...

Newswise — The grain sorghum research team at Kansas State University has been working to solve a serious food production problem in Africa " and the team now has a solution that could have a ...

The world’s food systems have developed in a way that is not serving health and sustainability. People are increasingly eating industrially produced foods that are low in nutrients and high in fats ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- There's a favorite saying among American farmers that no politician is as important to a farmer as a slow two-inch rain in July. That saying plays in Africa, too, where a ...

KANSAS CITY, MO. - As he pores over plant tissue and petri dishes in a biotech seed lab in Johnston, Iowa, Luke Mehlo is half a world away from his home in South Africa. But though the cornfields of ...

The promotion of monocultures is hurting the production of much more nutritious and climate-resistant traditional crops.

Sorghum, a staple in many African countries, is not just a versatile grain but also the star ingredient of some delectable desserts ...

To include sorghum in a book on "lost" crops, on the face of it, seems like a gross mistake. After all, the plant is Africa's contribution to the world's top crops. 1 Indeed, it belongs to the elite ...