A new centre in Nairobi is exploring whether 100 traditional African crops could bring food security to millions of people. The Academy, an initiative of the African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC) opened in late 2013 and is being hosted by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in Nairobi. Reporting in the Guardian, Caspar van Vark says 250 scientists from around Africa will receive training over the next five years in the latest biotechnological techniques to sequence, assemble and annotate the genomes of 100 traditional African food crops. You can read his story here