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protection from droughts. under this program, maize yields increased times between and , with even larger increases for beans, wheat, and potatoes. in senegal, the west africa agricultural productivity program has developed new high-yielding, early-maturing, drought-resistant varieties of crops such as sorghum
, millet, groundnuts, and cowpeas. these varieties are being widely disseminated to farmers and have raised yields by an average of percent, even with less and more erratic rainfall. despite the late onset of rains in , with only half the average total rainfall, yields for farmers of improved sorghum...
http://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/policy-priorities-achieving-food-and-nutrition-security-africa-2030