Global Academy conducted a training program on Improved Adaption to Drought and Dry Cereal for four fellows from Mali and one fellow Burkina Faso spanning from November 4-17, 2017. While at NC State, the fellows attended lectures and roundtable sessions with faculty from Department of Agricultural and Human Sciences, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Department of Applied Ecology, and Prestage Department of Poultry Science. They also visited a number of NC State research facilities such as National Science Foundation Center for Integrated Pest Management at NC State, North Carolina Plant Disease and Insect Clinic at NC State, Center for Environmental Farming Systems, and Central Crops Research Station. To gain understanding of how the government is supporting environmentally friendly programs, the fellows also met with North Carolina officials from USDA Farm Service Agency, USDA Rural Development Agency, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, North Carolina Farm Bureau, USDA-ARS Climate Change/Air Quality Laboratory, and USDA-ARS Soybean and Nitrogen Fixation Research Unit. As most of these fellows worked in the cotton industry in Mali and Burkina Faso, they were interested in visiting similar industry facilities in NC. With that aim, they toured private businesses such as Rock Ridge Farms, Silver Lake Cotton Grower’s Gin, Cotton, Inc, and Pace Family Farms.