Dennis is an expert in international seed systems, commercialization and agricultural development with over 40 years of experience in more than 25 countries across 5 continents.

The Soybean Innovation Lab has identified the limited quantity and poor quality of soybean varieties available to farmers as a main reason for low yields across the African continent. Under...

In Mozambique, SIL partners with the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) to bring free, online education to the agricultural community.

Information and communication technology (ICT) has become a mission-critical element for success in modern agricultural research around the globe. In that sense, ICT has become like the “oxygen” for ag...

Examining how access to threshers can assist private sector companies such as FirstWave in contributing to economic resiliency and market strength for African farmers and businesses.

The Feed the Future Soybean Innovation Lab’s (SIL) newest online course offering, the Certified Soybean Agronomy Course for West Africa, has officially launched and can be accessed here!

Soybean has been the fastest growing broad land crop for the last 20 years as farmers attempt to meet the rising demand for a variety of feed, food, and industrial...

Dr. Carrie Miranda, postdoctoral researcher with USDA-ARS, describes herself as a NextGen breeder dedicated to strengthening domestic and global food security by using bioinformatic tools to discover new genes for...

The soybean industry in Malawi suffers from a lack of new, improved varieties for producers to meet the growing demand from processors. In order to address this issue, USAID’s Feed...

The Soybean Innovation Lab supported the launch of the first mechanized planting in the history of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture’s (IITA) breeding program last month in Lusaka, Zambia.