by Administrator | Mar 2, 2017 | Beans, CGIAR, CIAT, Kenya, PABRA, Partnership, Uncategorized
The catalyst for change came from catastrophe in Kenya, when farmers in the western part of the country lost their maize harvest to disease in 2012. At that time, Jacinta Majimbo, a bean farmer from Bungoma district in Western Kenya, could never be sure what her...
by Administrator | Aug 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
The sun peers through the early morning mist as Michael Kilango passes through the doors of the Agricultural Research Institute – Uyole, in Tanzania’s Southern Highlands. The station, in the heart of sunflower plots and bean fields, is teeming with researchers...
by Administrator | Aug 29, 2016 | Beans, PABRA, Rwanda, Uncategorized
A scientific report published in April calls for a shift in interventions to tackle malnutrition in children in Rwanda under the age of two. Among recommendations, authors urge renewed focus to “fast-track” pre-pregnancy nutrition. Adolescent nutrition before...
by Administrator | Mar 17, 2016 | Beans, CIAT, Kenya, PABRA, Partnership, Uncategorized
Over 450 of the world’s most prominent grain legume researchers met in Livingstone, Zambia, earlier this month for the Pan-African Grain Legume and World Cowpea Conference, a signature event of the UN-declared International Year of Pulses 2016. Organised by...
by Administrator | Mar 3, 2016 | CIAT, PABRA, Partnership, Uncategorized
Researchers attending the Pan-African Grain Legume and World Cowpea Conference in Livingstone, Zambia, this week have expressed concern at the lack of funding of research in pulses. Annual funding in pulse research, which covers 13 different crops, hovers at $175m,...
by Administrator | Oct 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
New drought-resilient white beans – most commonly used to make baked beans – will be deployed to Ethiopia, as erratic weather threatens national production and farmers’ incomes. Severe drought in Ethiopia, Africa’s largest exporter of the bean used to make baked...
