by Patricia Onyango | Apr 18, 2023 | Latest News, Rwanda
by Emma Uwera, Edouard Rurangwa, Annuarite Uwera, Sylvia Kalemera, Jean Claude Rubyogo, Rachel Muthoni Andriatsitohaina Emma Uwera is a young seed entrepreneur, wife, and a mother to three beautiful children, living in Muyumbu sector, Rwamagana District. After...
by Patricia Onyango | Sep 10, 2022 | Africa, Latest News, Rwanda, Uncategorized, Women
During the inaugural AGRF meeting in Kigali Rwanda, Pan Africa Bean Research Alliance Improved yields, incomes and nutrition, from the beans. “Hearing from the mothers and grandmother in Siaya county in Kenya of how the income from beans is paying for the children’s...
by Administrator | Jan 15, 2018 | Beans, PABRA, Rwanda
Participants of the bean business platform workshop in Kigali, Rwanda. (Credit; Lilies Gachanja) by Eileen Nchanji, Eliud Birachi, Mercy Mutua, Leonidas Dusenge and Lilies Gachanja Pan Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) carried out a bean business platform at the...
by Administrator | Jan 12, 2018 | Beans, PABRA, Rwanda
By Eileen Nchanji, Chantal Ingabire and Eliud Birachi Agricultural transformation is one of the leading efforts for poverty reduction and food security in Africa. Governments, development agencies and researchers agree on the role that can be played by agricultural...
by Administrator | Dec 22, 2017 | Beans, Rwanda, Uganda
Iron-Fortified Beans Winning Customers in Rwanda, Uganda A recent study by the Global Nutrition Report 2017 shows that eating beans bred to contain more iron boosts memory and attention in college-going women in Rwanda. The specially biofortified beans could prove...
by Administrator | Dec 14, 2017 | Africa, Beans, Burundi, CIAT, Ethiopia, NARO, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda
by Georgina Smith | Dec 13, 2017 This is post is part of our climate campaign in Africa. The story has appeared in several news outlets including Associated Press, the New York Times and others. Earlier this year, South Sudan fell victim to the first famine declared...
