Climate-Smart And Community Biorefining Initiatives
Internationally funded collaborative projects for sorghum value chains, smallholder resilience, and crop improvement modernization.
This project cluster includes multi-institutional work on dryland crop improvement, smallholder resilience, and sorghum value chains.
Key activities included coordinating the BIOINNOVATE Africa project on small-scale community biorefining of sorghum for food, sugar, and biomaterials in rainfed Eastern Africa; serving as co-PI for the CultiAF-2 climate-smart interventions project with the University of Queensland and regional research institutes; and contributing as Component 2 focal person for the MERCI crop improvement initiative.
Across these efforts, the work connected experimental design, field implementation, scientific reporting, project coordination, and dissemination of research outputs.