by Yohane Chideya | Feb 27, 2025 | Africa, Beans, CIAT, Kenya, PABRA, Partnership
By Owen Kimani and Warren Arinaitwe In response to growing climate change effects, smallholder bean farmers in Kenya’s Bomet and Homabay Counties are using novel and sustainable agricultural techniques to boost resilience and production. By including helpful...
by Yohane Chideya | Oct 29, 2024 | Kenya
By Priscilla Nzaka, Dennis Ong’or, Justin Mabeya, Paul Aseete, Jean Claude Rubyogo and David Karanja In the tranquil landscape of Kieni East Sub County, Nyeri County, a quiet revolution in common bean production, catalysed by the Nyota bean, is taking shape. Nyota...
by Yohane Chideya | Sep 4, 2024 | Kenya
By Dennis Ong’or, Priscilla Nzaka, Justin Mabeya, Paul Aseete, Jean Claude Rubyogo & David Karanja Imagine a place where common beans become a catalyst for change—this is the vision of Murang’a County in Kenya. Driven by the legume’s remarkable potential to...
by Administrator | May 21, 2024 | Africa, Beans, KALRO, Kenya
By Esther Nzuki, Edith Mutui, Jean Claude Rubyogo According to the 2023 Outcome Impact Case Report, the Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) has facilitated the release of over 650 new bean varieties, in 31 African countries, which have reached more than 42.7...
by Administrator | May 7, 2018 | Kenya, Women
By Eileen Nchanji Being in Kenya for barely three months, I was still grasping with the different ways in which gender plays out in the office and country I will soon call home. To this end, I talked with uber, taxify and little cab drivers on my way to and from work,...
by Administrator | May 3, 2018 | Beans, CIAT, Kenya, PABRA
On a Thursday afternoon, a group of 38 students of Mwireri Secondary School, Mweiga Nyeri are busy in school farm with their agriculture and head teacher, Mr. George Murage, inspecting the individual students bean plots. These are form four students monitoring the...
