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January 24, 2018
Plagued by pest, African farmers may soon have access to insect-resistant GMO cowpeas—for free (Genetic Literacy Project)
December 22, 2017
Namibia - Ministry of Agriculture unveils first seeds bred in Namibia by Namibians using mutation breeding (AllAfrica)
December 13, 2017
Indian Institute of Technology researchers develop viral disease resistant variety of cowpea (Research Matters)
December 3, 2017
Ghana - A three-year $689,984 project to increase the yields of cowpea, groundnut, and soybean of smallholder farmers in the north has been launched (Modern Ghana)
November 30, 2017
Ghana - Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (CSIR-SARI) launches legumes improvement project (Ghana News Agency)
November 8, 2017
Nigeria - University Don seeks special attention to cowpea production (This Day)
October 26, 2017
Cowpea protected from a devastating pest, free for smallholder African farmers - Scientists have discovered a new mechanism to protect cowpea from pod borers that destroy smallholder farmers' yields
October 18, 2017
Nigeria prepares for commercialisation of Bt cowpea, cotton
October 15, 2017
Nigeria - National Agricultural Research System declares Bt cowpea safe for human consumption (Vanguard)
October 8, 2017
Nigeria - Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology discloses that farmers will have access to BT cowpea, cotton in 2018 (Vanguard)
July 31, 2017
Brasil - Variedade de feijão-caupi para agricultura familiar na região Norte
July 17, 2017
Cultivo de feijão caupi biofortificado em rotação de culturas com o arroz é tema de dia de campo
June 7, 2017
USDA Plant Variety Protection Office issues 51 certificates of protection on May 10, 2017
May 22, 2017
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) donates 35,930 kilograms ‘Seeds of Renaissance’ to Nigeria to address humanitarian crisis
May 10, 2017
Thirsty seeds reach for medicine cabinet
April 24, 2017
Malawi progresses in GM crop trials
March 9, 2017
From new beans to ancient plants, drought-busting crops take root (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
February 22, 2017
Scientists target 8 million African farmers with pod-borer resistant cowpea (Vanguard)
December 22, 2016
A genetic library of cowpea varieties for food security
November 18, 2016
Farmer preferred improved varieties demonstrated in Niger
October 24, 2016
Researchers inventing pod borer resistant cowpea for Africa
October 16, 2016
Nigeria - African Agricultural Technology Foundation and Institute for Agricultural Research develop insect, pest resistant cowpea (Vanguard)
October 14, 2016
How University of California scientists are taking on the global food crisis
September 2, 2016
Nigeria - Ahmadu Bello University’s revolution in seeds technology (Leadership)
August 31, 2016
Cowpeas are the answer. What’s the question?
April 22, 2016
Malawi legume farmers laud seed breeder Peacock Enterprise Ltd. for drought tolerant and bumper harvest hybrid seeds (The Maravi Post)
March 18, 2016
University of California, Riverside scientists receive grant to sequence cowpea genome
July 1, 2015
Ghana - USAID sponsored cowpea seed improvement project begins (Ghana Business News)
May 18, 2015
Contributing to Niger's national agriculture agenda
April 21, 2015
Feeding a growing population - How science is helping improve cowpea yields in Africa
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