by Patricia Onyango | Mar 3, 2019 | Africa, Beans, Latest News, News, SDG
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 with the launch of the Accelerated Varietal...
by Patricia Onyango | Jan 19, 2019 | Beans
Bean production initiative at Mwireri Secondary School started in 2017 with a small demonstration to assess the suitability of two varieties for the area. From the success observed, the school has now taken up bean production as one of its self-sustaining enterprises....
by Patricia Onyango | Nov 19, 2018 | Africa, Beans, KALRO, News
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 will position Kenya as a development-oriented country. Food and nutrition security is one of the...
by Administrator | May 3, 2018 | Beans, CIAT, Kenya, PABRA
On a Thursday afternoon, a group of 38 students of Mwireri Secondary School, Mweiga Nyeri are busy in school farm with their agriculture and head teacher, Mr. George Murage, inspecting the individual students bean plots. These are form four students monitoring the...
by Administrator | Apr 5, 2018 | Beans
The PABRA 2018 steering committee meeting was held at the Speke Resort Munyonyo, Uganda between the 20th and 22nd March 2018. Appropriately themed Bean Commodity Corridors as an Approach for Enhancing Productivity, Markets and Nutrition, the meeting brought together...
by Administrator | Mar 12, 2018 | Africa, Beans, PABRA, Tanzania
High-iron beans are a special type of conventionally bred biofortified beans that contain high levels of iron and zinc. Biofortification enhances the nutritional value of staple food crops by increasing the density of vitamins and minerals in a crop through either...