Uganda’s Makerere University has received US$565,000 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support a cassava breeding project.
The grant, to the Makerere Regional Centre for Crop Improvement, is a partnership with Cornell University in the United States.
Some of the money will go towards improvement of cassava and sorghum, two drought-tolerant crops that are critical to food security in the country.
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