Farmers in Colombia's maize-growing region of Córdoba had seen it all: too much rain one year, a searing drought the next. Yields were down and their livelihoods hung in the balance. To better deal ...

Though maize was growing in China by the 1500s, it doesn’t appear to be an indigenous species there, Desjardins and McCarthy note. One clue is the various names they turned up for the grain— fan mai ...

With the onset of climate change and changes in irrigation, adapting food crops to grow in diverse environments could help feed the world. Now University of California, Davis, scientists are leading a ...

EZIMNYAMA, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As Zimbabwe's farmers head to the fields to plant, the country is facing yet another dry growing season, meteorologists predict. But that has not ...

At this time of the year, nearly all maize-growing areas in Kenya have planted and the crop is at the vital stage where nutrition will determine the quality and the size of the harvest. At this stage, ...

GITHONGO, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Dressed in a green hat and black mud boots, Gilbert Gitonga is busy tending his 3-acre (1.2-hectare) farm in Kenya’s Meru County. Moving among rows of ...

The demand for UK maize rise is rising, and so too is the demand for multi-use varieties which offer flexible market opportunities. Maize continues to be the first-choice feedstock for anaerobic ...