Climate Resilient Sorghum Innovation Lab

The Climate Resilient Sorghum Innovation Lab is using new scientific tools to develop drought- and heat-tolerant varieties of sorghum, a staple grain in many countries, which builds climate resilience into sorghum production systems. The Innovation Lab is also exploring new approaches to production through the development of perennial sorghum.

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Striking yield improvements have come from hybrid varieties bred from wild sorghum relatives. Photo: Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Sorghum and Millet

Toward a Drought-Resilient Sorghum: Q&A with Innovation Lab Director Andrew Paterson

April Thompson

May 22, 2018

The Feed the Future Climate-Resilient Sorghum Innovation Lab is advancing drought and heat tolerance of sorghum and, in parallel, transforming production systems to reverse losses of ecological capital.

Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources

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Using natural genetic variation, we are helping to address urgent needs for a more drought-resilient food supply that can be produced while protecting and enhancing soil resources and other ecosystem services, specifically through the durable African native, sorghum. With the world population projected to be near 10 billion by 2050, I see this type of research as being paramount to food security world wide.

Lead Institute
University of Georgia

Focus countries
Ethiopia, India, Mali

US-based partners

The Land Institute

Focus-country partners

Agricultural Research Council of South Africa, ICRISAT, Jimma University

Learn more

Read the press release to learn more about this lab.

Contact

Email our director Prof. Andrew Paterson, Director of the Climate Resilient Sorghum Innovation Lab, for more information: paterson@uga.edu

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