by Patricia Onyango | May 11, 2020 | Latest News, News
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 comment la récolte de haricots peut être exploitée, pour...
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...
by Patricia Onyango | Oct 14, 2019 | Latest News, News
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 in Kenya can be doubled through high-yielding, climate-smart varieties and Good Agricultural Practices...
by Patricia Onyango | Jul 25, 2019 | Africa, Beans
by Eileen Nchanji and Bruce Mutari Most rural households in Zimbabwe are vulnerable from multiple climatic shocks, cash shortages, price changes, health issues resulting in 33% of the households not getting enough food with 10% experiencing severe hunger. This...
by Patricia Onyango | Mar 3, 2019 | Africa, Beans, Latest News, News, SDG
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 with the launch of the Accelerated Varietal...
by Patricia Onyango | Jan 19, 2019 | Beans
Bean production initiative at Mwireri Secondary School started in 2017 with a small demonstration to assess the suitability of two varieties for the area. From the success observed, the school has now taken up bean production as one of its self-sustaining enterprises....
