Casarabe people grew the nutritious crop year-round on savannas thanks to networks of drainage canals and ponds.

Stella Karugi inspects her stunted maize crop at her Kanoga farm in Karia village within Nyeri town constituency, January 18, 2018. [Photo by Mose Sammy/Standard] Farmers in parts of the Rift ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Daniel Metto, a farmer in Kipkaren, said he has hived-off his five-acre piece of land to ...

The findings reinforce the theory, based on genetic evidence from plants alive now, that domestication of maize may also have been completed in South America, as proposed in an article published ...

The domestication of maize is one of the greatest examples of humankind's impact on evolution. Early farmers' pre-industrial plant breeding choices turned corn from a nearly inedible crop into the ...