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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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Putting digital agro-climatic services in the hands of bean value chain actors

Posted by Patricia Onyango on October 2, 2020

By: Desire M. Kagabo, Yvonne U. Munyangeri, Patrick Mvuyibwami, Livingstone Byandaga, Boaz Waswa, Louis Butare, Teshale A. Mamo, Rowland Chirwa, Jean Claude Rubyogo, and Patricia Onyango “The app is just…
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Women Building Resilience In Sub Saharan Africa

Posted by Patricia Onyango on September 30, 2020

These articles first appeared in the Gender Newsletter dated 30 Sept 2020 by Eileen Nchanji – PABRA Gender Specialist in collaboration…
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Covid-19: Comment les haricots peuvent dresser les défis de l’alimentation, de la nutrition et de la pauvreté pendant la pandémie.

Posted by Patricia Onyango on May 11, 2020

by Robert Fungo La pandémie du COVID-19, a causé des crises considérables dans les systèmes alimentaires, en particulier dans les pays les plus pauvres d’Afrique et d’Asie. Ci-dessous, nous explorons…
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Bean based products changing diets in Africa #EachforEqual

Posted by Patricia Onyango on February 24, 2020

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…
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Kenya partners review the future of High Iron Beans

Posted by Patricia Onyango on October 14, 2019

Kenya gets most of its beans from Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, and DRC as imports. This shows that Kenya is a big market and consumer of beans. If bean productivity…
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Healthier and Prosperous Africa: ‘AVISA’ Project launched for faster agriculture gains in seven countries

Posted by Patricia Onyango on March 3, 2019

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…
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Policymakers at the center of High Iron Bean promotion in Kenya

Posted by Patricia Onyango on November 19, 2018

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…
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