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Empowering Zinduka Women’s Group in Tanzania to Produce Quality Bean Seed and Better Their Community

Posted by Patricia Onyango on February 8, 2022

This post is by Fadhili Kasubiri, Michael Kilango, Agnes Ndunguru, Mary Ndimbo, Kessy Radegunda, Sylvia Kalemera, Patricia Onyango, Noel Templer, Teshale Mamo, Eileen Nchanji and Jean Claude Rubyogo.
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Can Informal Traders Drive Seed Security? A Case of Eastern DRC’s Bean and Cassava Business

Posted by Patricia Onyango on February 8, 2022

This post is by Noel Templer, Mercy Mutua, Eliud Birachi, Sylvia Kalemera, Kijana Ruhebuza, Benjamin Wimba, Radegunda Kessy, Eileen Nchanji, Patricia Onyango and Jean-Claude Rubyogo.
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Bean Atlas 2.0 Launch

Posted by Patricia Onyango on October 12, 2021

You are invited to the launch of the Bean Atlas 2.0. A team of specialists involved in creating the atlas will discuss how this tool will be a key reference…
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Farmer preferred, market demanded and highly nutritious beans to boost Rwanda’s household diets and wealth

Posted by Patricia Onyango on June 26, 2021

Rwanda has one of the highest per capita consumption in the world, confirming that beans are a key crop for food security in the country. Common bean is an…
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Bean threshers transforming post-harvest and food safety handling in Kenya

Posted by Patricia Onyango on June 21, 2021

Boaz Waswa, Josey Kamanda, Justin Mabeya, Eileen Nchanji, David Karanja, Patricia Onyango, Owen Kimani She wonders why she has to go through the tedious ritual of hitting the bean harvest…
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Cultural expectations in women’s economic empowerment: Case of women and men farmers in Uganda

Posted by Patricia Onyango on May 27, 2021

By Eileen Nchanji, Grace Nanyonjo, and Isaac Muggaga Common beans are a valuable crop across sub-Saharan Africa, contributing to food nutrition security and income for smallholder farmers. It was considered…
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PABRA mentors award winning scientist on Improving smallholder farmers’ food security through disease resistant common beans

Posted by Patricia Onyango on November 26, 2020

Bean researchers are almost always cooped up in the laboratory and farm trials looking into various ways of improving production and productivity. They spend months and even years looking…
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Bundling inputs and agricultural extension services in a gender equitable manner to increases bean production in the lower Rift of Kenya

Posted by Patricia Onyango on September 23, 2020

By Patricia Onyango, Boaz Waswa, Eileen Nchanji, Josey Kamanda, and Collins Leboo Across Africa, farmers’ access to agricultural advisory services is limited due to the weak extension systems. This is…
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Capitalizing on digital tools to sustain bean production, trade and consumption amidst COVID-19

Posted by Patricia Onyango on August 17, 2020

This blog was published by Sylvia Kalemera, Patricia Onyango, Enid Katungi, Boaz Waswa, Eliud Birachi, Noel Templer, Fadhili Kasubiri, Kessy Radegunda, Elvira Omondi, Eward Mushi and Jean Claude Rubyogo When…
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How beans can address food, nutrition and income challenges during COVID 19.

Posted by Patricia Onyango on May 11, 2020

By Robert Fungo The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant disruptions in food systems, especially on the poorest nations of Africa and Asia. PABRA explores how the bean crop can be…
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