Margaret, a progressive farmer in Kakamega County of western Kenya, suffers from diabetes. So she planted finger millet at a time when all of her neighbours planted maize. She likes the finger millet because it is high in nutritional content, is gluten free, and has a low GI.

Magaret has been growing finger millet for more than a decade and reports that her diabetes is under control and she and her family are healthy thanks to regular consumption of finger millet.

My colleague, Benjamin Kilian, and our finger millet pre-breeding partner, Chrisus Oduori, paid Margaret and visit and we were happy to find Margaret to be having such success with her finger millet crop.

All images used on this page were photographed by Michael Major for the Crop Trust and used here under a CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license.