The project in Ethiopia focuses on the stability over time of factors supporting the maintenance of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) diversity on farm.  It is built on an earlier project in the regions of North Shewa and South Welo.  The research will return to 300 farmers' fields that were sampled in an earlier study by Awegechew Teshome using the same sampling methods.  The Biodiversity Institute and the Biology Department of the Addis Ababa University will participate in the research project. 

Diversity of sorghum landraces 

Farmers' fields of sorghum