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Madagascar is particularly vulnerable to climate change. To help Madagascan farmers adapt, the U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut at University of Georgia an additional $2.5 million to work in partnership with the Global Collaboration on Sorghum and Millet at Kansas State University on a resilient rotation of peanut, sorghum and millet that will improve soil conditions, make farms more productive, feed people and protect the natural environment.
Dr Francis Kusi, the Director of Savanna Agricultural Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-SARI), has urged scientists in the agricultural sector to support the government to improve groundnut and peanut production, as a boost to food security. He said scientists should also use their knowledge…