2011 – Partnership with Crops For the Future Research Centre (CFFRC)

CFFRC was established in 2011, with Professor Sayed Azam-Ali serving as its founder and CEO. The goal of CFFRC was to develop solutions to diversify agriculture using underutilised crops. CFF and CFFRC pooled their resources in 2014 to create Crops For the Future (CFF), a single global organisation. In 2020, CFF (UK) was established, with Prof. Sayed Azam-Ali, serving as its CEO. The organization's goal is to continue promoting the wider use of underutilised crops globally.

Major highlights:

BamYIELD (Bambara groundnut) project – led by Professor Sean Mayes

This project developed Bambara groundnut as an exemplar underutilised crop species and paved the way for most of the progress and ongoing work that we see today. The project used multidisciplinary approaches, tools, methodologies and generated genetic resources to address the limiting factors in the adoption of underutilised crops using Bambara groundnut as an exemplar crop. This effort led to an international crop improvement and breeding programme on Bambara groundnut as a generic model for other underutilised species.

CFF-UNM DTP programme – co-Directed by Professor Festo Massawe and Sean Mayes
Read more here: https://www.cff-unmc-dtp.com/