Putting digital agro-climatic services in the hands of bean value chain actors

By: Desire M. Kagabo, Yvonne U. Munyangeri, Patrick Mvuyibwami, Livingstone Byandaga, Boaz Waswa, Louis Butare, Teshale A. Mamo, Rowland Chirwa, Jean Claude Rubyogo, and Patricia Onyango   “The app is just…

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Women Building Resilience In Sub Saharan Africa

These articles first appeared in the Gender Newsletter dated 30 Sept 2020 by Eileen Nchanji – PABRA Gender Specialist in collaboration…

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Covid-19: Comment les haricots peuvent dresser les défis de l’alimentation, de la nutrition et de la pauvreté pendant la pandémie.

by Robert Fungo La pandémie du COVID-19, a causé des crises considérables dans les systèmes alimentaires, en particulier dans les pays les plus pauvres d’Afrique et d’Asie. Ci-dessous, nous explorons…

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Bean based products changing diets in Africa #EachforEqual

By Eileen Nchanji, Gender Specialist – Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT With increasing urbanization, population growth and high cost of living, the diets in the urban areas are changing. Most…

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Kenya partners review the future of High Iron Beans

Kenya gets most of its beans from Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, and DRC as imports. This shows that Kenya is a big market and consumer of beans. If bean productivity…

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Healthier and Prosperous Africa: ‘AVISA’ Project launched for faster agriculture gains in seven countries

Tanzanian Minister for Agriculture calls for more public-private collaboration Greater yields, higher incomes, and improved livelihoods – these will be the results farmers in seven countries across Africa could get…

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Policymakers at the center of High Iron Bean promotion in Kenya

Policymakers at the center of High Iron Bean promotion in Kenya The Big 4 Agenda is at the heart of the President of Kenya, Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta’s flagship projects that…

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