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Women entrepreneurs empowered through beans – Christella, Sheila

Women entrepreneurs empowered through beans – Christella, Sheila

by Patricia Onyango | Apr 22, 2020 | Africa, Latest News, Partnership, Uncategorized

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...
Beans making rural schools in Tanzania a better place to learn and thrive

Beans making rural schools in Tanzania a better place to learn and thrive

by Patricia Onyango | Apr 20, 2020 | Latest News, Uncategorized

by Patricia Onyango 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...
Farmer digital platform delivers financial inclusion: a case of KADERES in partnership with Tanzanian farmers and banks

Farmer digital platform delivers financial inclusion: a case of KADERES in partnership with Tanzanian farmers and banks

by Patricia Onyango | Mar 26, 2020 | Uncategorized

“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   The majority of smallholder...
Youth economic empowerment through mechanization in Tanzania

Youth economic empowerment through mechanization in Tanzania

by Patricia Onyango | Mar 19, 2020 | Latest News

In one hour the machine threshes 8 bags of beans, consuming one litre of petrol with a maximum of 3 people to operate. About one-third of Africa’s nearly 500 million youth aged 15-35 are unemployed. The high rate of youth unemployment remains a critical concern for...
Bean based products changing diets in Africa #EachforEqual

Bean based products changing diets in Africa #EachforEqual

by Patricia Onyango | Feb 24, 2020 | Latest News, News

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 people are going for readily available, delicious, affordable and sometimes...
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