Siby — Last year, when drought hit in the middle of the growing season in his region of southern Mali, Baba Berthé lost his entire two-hectare maize crop. "I harvested nothing at all," remembers the white-robed farmer with a greying goatee.
But disaster was averted when a plot of drought-resistant sorghum he had also planted flourished despite a lack of water.
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