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Trials on drought-tolerant maize underway

By Bernard Muthaka

'Shambafication' is the new terminology coined to describe the continued encroachment on and subsequent degradation of land for farming in Africa, a phenomenon brought on by a growing population that largely depends on ancient agricultural techniques.

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