When spiders unite, they can tie up a lion

By Debisi Araba, Regional Director for Africa, CIAT There’s an Ethiopian proverb: “When spiders unite, they can tie up a lion.” I’ve always been fascinated with the potential of sustained…

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Finding white gold

By Dr. Jean-Claude Rubyogo, Seed Systems Specialist and East and Central Africa Bean Research Network (ECABREN) Coordinator There was a time when, as researchers, our focus was on breeding beans to…

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Commodity Corridors: A paradigm shift in PABRA’s business

In the last 20 years, PABRA researchers have found that novel approaches are needed to eliminate bean production bottlenecks. We have made significant progress towards getting better beans to…

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News update

This year, the Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) celebrates 20 years of better beans for Africa  For 20 years, PABRA has helped to breed more nutritious, resilient beans for Africa.  Stay tuned by following this hashtag #PABRA20  and find out more about our work and initiatives here: http://bit.ly/2olaOu4

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R&D helping Africa have special beans to fight anaemia

Dr. Mercy Lung’aho, a nutritionist at CIAT and member of the Pan-African Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) network, talks to Scidev.net about high iron beans – and how they can…

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The Pan-African Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) wrapped up its joint steering committee planning workshop, Nairobi, Kenya earlier this month, January 20th – February 2nd

The workshop brought together more than 100 participants from across Africa, to plan the next phase of their research activities. Novel approaches to leverage better beans for more people…

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