Frank Rijsberman speaks to Busani Bafana about his plans for the CGIAR Consortium and the importance of agricultural research investment.

Interest is growing in tools and innovations that can ease the workload imposed on women farm workers, report M Sreelata and Naomi Antony.

The key to tackling hunger in Africa is enriching its soil, according to a story in Nature. The big debate is how to do it.

Denis Kyetere, executive director of the African Agricultural Technology Foundation, outlines his vision for the continent's farmers.

Faced with increasing pressure to grow food, and with growing support to test biotechnology, more African countries may start cultivating GM crops.

What will the Gates Foundation's links to a network of agricultural research centres mean for tackling hunger, asks Yojana Sharma?

GM crops were supposed to rescue the world's one billion undernourished people. Carol Campbell discusses whether they will ever curb hunger.

Developing world farmers are leading the way in the adoption of genetically modified crops.

Florence Wambugu, winner of the 2008 YARA prize for African agriculture, speaks to SciDev.Net about the challenges facing the field.

Maryke Steffens reports on the influences behind Africa's diverse attitudes to transgenic crops, and the need for a unified agenda.

Dominic Glover outlines the status of agricultural biotechnology research, development and commercialisation in sub-Saharan Africa.

Michael Malakata reports on efforts to fight hunger in Africa by preserving seeds and boosting research into improved crop varieties.