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Distributing high iron and zinc bean varieties to women farmers in Kenya during COVID-19
By Eileen Nchanji Achieving food and nutritional security and economic prosperity is possible even during this pandemic if men and women are given equal opportunities within an equitable system where structural barriers are removed and traditional gender norms and stereotypes are broken. With additional stress on food security caused by
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Beans, the new chickpea in Ghana
The Crops Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CRI-CSIR), has introduced four new common bean (baked beans) varieties, for adoption by farmers. Hunger and malnutrition persist primarily in northern Ghana, as well as in many rural and peri-urban communities across the country. Around 24.2 % of
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Mourning the passing of Dr. Rodah Morezio Zulu – Nutrition Specialist
The PABRA Family has lost one of its own! It is with profound sorrow and sadness that we announce the passing on of Dr. Rodah Morezio Zulu on 4 May 2020. She was receiving treatment at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, where she died. Rodah worked with the International
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Women entrepreneurs empowered through beans – Christella, Tei, Sheila
Sheila Alumo, East Africa Development Company, Uganda Sheila Alumo is the Managing Director of the Eastern Agricultural Development Company Ltd (EADCL) in Soroti town of Eastern Uganda. She is passionate about investing in affordable and yet nutritious products. A lawyer by training, Sheila found her passion in social entrepreneurship. She
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Making rural schools in Tanzania a better place to learn and thrive
A large proportion of school children in Sub-Saharan Africa suffer from malnutrition, adversely affecting their physical growth and cognitive ability to learn. Many school-age children in food-insecure areas remain out of school for extended periods of time, further negatively impacting their progress in education. The School Feeding programmes (SFP) is
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Farmer network application delivers financial inclusion for Tanzania farmers: case of KADERESS working in partnership
“The least that governments can do is to support digitizing the operations of small-scale farmers because it is going to transform agriculture.” Hon. Brigadier Marco Elias Gaguti, the Regional Commissioner – Kagera region, Tanzania Tanzanian smallholder bean farmers have not benefited from the potential market gains along the bean
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