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Fresh bean grain business in Tanzania; a new hope for youth and women

Fresh bean grain business in Tanzania; a new hope for youth and women

by Patricia Onyango | Dec 14, 2020 | Latest News

By Fadhili Kasubiri, Sylvia Kalemera, Kessy Radegunda, Eileen Nchanji, Owen Kimani, Patricia Onyango & Jean Claude Rubyogo Beans are a staple food in most rural households in Tanzania. They are both a food and income-generating crop in most households. Kagera...
PABRA mentors award winning scientist on Improving smallholder farmers’ food security through disease resistant common beans

PABRA mentors award winning scientist on Improving smallholder farmers’ food security through disease resistant common beans

by Patricia Onyango | Nov 26, 2020 | Africa, Latest News

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 at solutions that will maximize bean yields to ensure food and nutrition...
Common Beans: The Greener Pasture for Northern Tanzania Pastoralists

Common Beans: The Greener Pasture for Northern Tanzania Pastoralists

by Patricia Onyango | Oct 27, 2020 | Latest News

By: Radegunda Kessy, Sylvia Kalemera, Fadhili Kasubiri, Patricia Onyango, Owen Kimani, Jean Claude Rubyogo For the longest time when one mentions Maasai, the image that comes to mind is of young men—warriors—living in the wilderness, moving their livestock from one...
Promoting nutrition strategies to cope with COVID 19 in Lesotho

Promoting nutrition strategies to cope with COVID 19 in Lesotho

by Patricia Onyango | Oct 14, 2020 | Latest News

by Pauline Lekeba-Sithole Malnutrition is still a major challenge in Lesotho with infants and children under-five mortality rates being high in rural children compared to those in the urban. Children in rural Lesotho have limited access to basic health services,...
Alternative income for rural women in Zimbabwe in the wake of COVID 19

Alternative income for rural women in Zimbabwe in the wake of COVID 19

by Patricia Onyango | Oct 14, 2020 | Latest News, Uncategorized

By Nyarai Chisorochengwe Agriculture is primarily the backbone of Zimbabwe’s economy.  To cope with the sting of poverty, most people, especially women, have ventured into growing various crops and rearing chicken to improve food and nutrition security in their...
Putting digital agro-climatic services in the hands of bean value chain actors

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

by Patricia Onyango | Oct 2, 2020 | Latest News, News

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 lovely…. I can easily advise the farmers about DACA...
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