Horticulture

Keeping the Grass Greener for African Plant Breeders

By Busani Bafana
For the few plant breeders in Africa like Vivian Oduro, working for an international research institution is an obvious choice, with prestige and benefits any agricultural scientist would find hard to decline.

Kenya’s Flower Farms No Bed of Roses

By David Njagi
Catherine Mumbi knows the difficulties of working in Kenya’s flower sector. She was fired as a casual worker at a flower farm after taking time off to recover from complications of the liver. But that was just the start of her problems.