Women are an important and often underutilized human resource in Africa. They've faced many problems historically. Limited ...

In southern Africa, it means below-average rainfall, sometimes drought, and is being blamed for the current situation. The impact is more severe for those in Mangwe, where it’s notoriously arid.

People grow the cereal grain sorghum and pearl millet, crops that are drought-resistant and offer a chance at harvests, but even they failed to withstand the conditions this year.

According to Drought.gov, over 318 million acres of crops are experiencing drought conditions in the U.S. alone. Crop yields are also being affected by drought in Europe, southern Africa, and ...

More than 27 million people across southern Africa are afflicted by a historic drought — triggered by El Niño and exacerbated by climate change ... including growing drought-resistant crops.

It was as a child growing up in South Africa in the 1970s that Jill Farrant first noticed several plants around her apparently coming back from the dead. ... To create drought-resistant crops, ...

Southern Africa’s worst drought in years has destroyed crops of the staple food, maize, across the region. Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho and Namibia have all been ...

Wambugu’s Africa Harvest, which receives funding from the Mastercard Foundation, provides a “starter pack” of seeds for drought-­tolerant crops like sorghum, groundnuts, pigeon peas, and ...

James Tshuma, a farmer in Mangwe district in southwestern Zimbabwe,stands in the middle of his dried up crop field amid a drought in Zimbabwe, Friday, March, 22, 2024.

To protect crops from rising droughts, scientists are looking to the genes of a small group of plants that can survive months of drought then regreen within hours.

Women wait in a queue to receive food aid in Mangwe district in southwestern Zimbabwe, Friday, March, 22, 2024. A new drought has left millions facing hunger in southern Africa as they experience ...

MANGWE, Zimbabwe — Delicately and with intense concentration, Zanyiwe Ncube poured her small share of precious golden cooking oil into a plastic bottle at a food aid distribution site deep in ...