Eric Yirenkyi Danquah, Ghanaian plant geneticist, professor and founding director of the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), talks about his work, his route into the industry and establishing the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement - now one of the largest and most impactful centres in Africa on African crops which has turned out hundreds of PhDs in plant breeding now working in over 15 countries in Africa. On this episode we discuss whether reaching zero-hunger is a possiblity and what we are doing to try to acheive this goal.