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PABRA at 30: If beans could speak, what would 30 years sound like?

PABRA at 30: If beans could speak, what would 30 years sound like?

by Yohane Chideya | Dec 17, 2025 | Africa, PABRA30

Colleagues, As we look ahead to PABRA’s 30th Anniversary in September 2026, this moment invites reflection on how far the network has come, and the impact it continues to deliver across Africa. If beans could speak, they would tell stories of farmers rebuilding...
Tanzania advances seed digitization with Research Business Management System

Tanzania advances seed digitization with Research Business Management System

by Yohane Chideya | Dec 15, 2025 | PABRA, Partnership, Tanzania

By Martin Majambele1, Yohane Chideya1, Victor Leseedy1, Edith Kadege2, Joachim Madeni2, Lilian N. Gichuru3 and Justus Ochieng1 1International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT, Arusha Tanzania 2Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI), Dodoma, Tanzania...
The Business of Plant Breeding in Africa

The Business of Plant Breeding in Africa

by Yohane Chideya | Nov 26, 2025 | Africa, PABRA, Partnership

From the original post published on Crawford Fund for Food Security The Crawford Fund for Food Security and ANU’s Fenner School of Environment and Society were honoured to welcome on Monday, November 17 2025, Professors Gabrielle Persley and Kaye Basford from the...
From hard labor to higher profits: Tanzania’s smallholders win big through mechanized threshing power

From hard labor to higher profits: Tanzania’s smallholders win big through mechanized threshing power

by Yohane Chideya | Nov 5, 2025 | PABRA, Tanzania

By Yohane Chideya, Justus Ochieng, and Radegunda Kessy For years, smallholder farmers across Tanzania toiled under the sun from dawn to dusk, their hands calloused, their backs bent, and their hopes dimmed by the weight of hard labor. Despite all their effort, profits...
Read our 4th Edition of PABRA Friends Newsletter!

Read our 4th Edition of PABRA Friends Newsletter!

by Yohane Chideya | Oct 24, 2025 | Africa, PABRA, Publications

Catch up on the latest updates from PABRA Friends — including a new project update, a World Food Day Q&A, and much more! Read here
PABRA and Spice World forge new path for Africa’s high value beans

PABRA and Spice World forge new path for Africa’s high value beans

by Yohane Chideya | Sep 4, 2025 | Africa, PABRA, Partnership

By Dennis Ong’or, Warren Arinaitwe, Sylvia Kalemera, Radegunda Kessy, Justus Ochieng, Eliud Birachi, Agness Manthi, Jean Claude Rubyogo The story of beans in Africa is evolving and is no longer confined to subsistence farms or local markets. Beans are now drawing the...
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