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In 2013, the CGIAR Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) released a report that indicated that only 2% of the households in Wote, a district in Eastern Kenya, are food secure 12 months in a year. Farmers in this area struggle to wrest a meager living from farming as they are adversely affected by drought, a situation that has been made worse by climate change and land degradation. Based on these findings, ICRISAT formed a partnership with the Kenyan Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) and the Ministry of Agriculture in Kenya, to introduce and bring to the main stream the sorghum system and two legume crops (cowpeas and green gram) with inherent resilience to drought with the aim to improve the livelihoods of the poor smallholder farming households. The project funded through CCAFS has so far reached 366 farmers in Wote, who have adopted the sorghum-legume technologies.