Webinar: High-yielding, climate-resilient beans kick-start business in Zimbabwe

SDC flagship project end line report 

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Webinar: How beans are beating hunger and malnutrition in Burundi

 SDC flagship project end line report, 2020   20 July 2020, 15:00–17:00 hrs (East Africa Time) Objectives  a.  Share the highlights of t

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Yellow Bean Corridor: Seed & Grain Trade Potential

This post is written by Eliud Birachi, Mercy Mutua, Clare Mukankusi, Noel Templer, Louise Sperling, Patricia Onyango, Sylvia Kalemera, Robin Buruchara, Bhramar Dey and Jean Claude Rubyogo. Common bean (Phaseolus…

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Digitally Tracking Dissemination & Targeting Markets: High Iron Bean Seeds in Kenya

This post is written by Bhramar Dey, Justin Machini, Michael Wilcox, and Jean Claude Rubyogo.     After millions of dollars are invested to develop, test, and release a new variety of seeds, hundreds…

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Distributing high iron and zinc bean varieties to women farmers in Kenya during COVID-19

By Eileen Nchanji Achieving food and nutritional security and economic prosperity is possible even during this pandemic if men and women are given equal opportunities within an equitable system where…

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Beans, the new ‘cowpea’ in Ghana

The Crops Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CRI-CSIR), has introduced four new common bean (baked beans) varieties, for adoption by farmers. Hunger and malnutrition persist…

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Mourning the passing of Dr. Rodah Morezio Zulu – Nutrition Specialist

The PABRA Family has lost one of its own! It is with profound sorrow and sadness that we announce the passing on of Dr. Rodah Morezio Zulu on 4 May…

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Women entrepreneurs empowered through beans – Christella, Sheila

Sheila Alumo, East Africa Development Company, Uganda Sheila Alumo is the Managing Director of the Eastern Agricultural Development Company Ltd…

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Making rural schools in Tanzania a better place to learn and thrive

A large proportion of school children in Sub-Saharan Africa suffer from malnutrition, adversely affecting their physical growth and cognitive ability to learn. Many school-age children in food-insecure areas remain…

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Farmer digital platform delivers financial inclusion: a case of KADERES in partnership with Tanzanian farmers and banks

“The least that governments can do is to support digitizing the operations of small-scale farmers because it is going to transform agriculture.” Hon. Brigadier Marco Elias…

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