While traveling through Africa and stopping at CIMMYT’s regional offices, I had the pleasure of meeting the President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, and discussing ways of enhancing agricultural productivity in the face of erratic rains expected in the 2018-19 farming season.
Read a news story about this meeting on The Herald: https://www.herald.co.zw/forecast-drought-ed-engages-experts/
![CIMMYT's director general Martin Kropff (right) greets the president of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, at Munhumutapa Offices in Harare. (Picture by Tawanda Mudimu)](https://www.cimmyt.org/content/uploads/2018/09/ED-1.jpg)