RAID Network 272d ago

RAID’s Earth Month Snapshot Interviews aim to highlight some of the research being undertaken to tackle the issue of climate change and agriculture for development. Today’s interview is with Professor Andrew Borrell! Professor Andrew Borrell is a crop physiologist at the Centre for Crop Science at the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), University of Queensland. For more than a decade, Andrew has led an international project (Australia/US) aimed at discovering key genes underpinning the stay-green drought adaptation trait in cereals, using sorghum as a model crop. He has co-led a project within sub-Saharan Africa and India to develop drought-adapted sorghum germplasm and has also worked extensively in South-East Asia for the past 25 years developing sustainable cropping systems, including recent research on rice production and adaptation to climate change in Vietnam. For more information about RAID’s Earth Month check out https://raidnetwork.crawfordfund.org/event/earth-month-april-2021/