In Lagos, Nigeria, where the hum of the city mingles with the aroma of freshly baked bread, Chef Juliet Aigbe, known affectionally as “Chef Juls,” slides a grain-free wedding cake into a large ...

For anyone who relies on coffee to start their day, coffee wilt disease may be the most important disease you’ve never heard ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GettyImages Hunger and undernourishment are two elements of food insecurity that have plagued Africa for years. And the menace is ...

The Third Report on the State of the World's Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture warns that extreme weather conditions are posing a threat to traditional crop varieties, including sorghum ...

Africans are increasingly reliant on the small number of staple crops that dominate global agriculture, despite the nutritional and environmental benefits of indigenous crops such as millet, sorghum, ...

Damaris A. Odeny is part of the Accelerated Crop Improvement Program, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru 502324, India. The need to sequence the genome of ...

As the effects of climate change continue to pose significant threats to food security worldwide, the scientific community is turning to innovative solutions. One such solution lies in gene-edited ...

Almost all of Africa's maize crop is at risk from the devastating fall armyworm pest (Spodoptera frugiperda) according to new research. Scientists have highlighted how almost the entire African maize ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Crop diversification is an important part of achieving nutrition security; the risks of reliance on a single crop are immense. Sub-Saharan Africa, suggests a new study in Nature Food, must diversify ...

There is an overlooked resource in sub-Saharan Africa that could help broaden and secure Africa's food supply. Native African plants have vast potential as food- and cash-crops but are typically ...