by Administrator | Apr 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
It’s October in Cyuve district, one of Rwanda’s most productive agricultural regions. Looking across the valley to the hills in the far distance, just one crop dominates. Climbing beans. The beans are not yet waist high. Instead, it is the many thousands of uniform...
by Administrator | Feb 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
If you had to choose just one word that captures the essence of bean research in Sub-Saharan Africa it is ‘partnership’ – between researchers, farmers, policymakers, nutritionists, private sector service providers and every other actor along the bean value chain....
by Administrator | Feb 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
“Grain legumes don’t get the attention or investment that they deserve”, so say more than 50 grain legume experts and value chain actors who gathered in Nairobi on 28 to 30 January 2015 – which is precisely why the UN has declared 2016 the International Year of Pulses...
by Administrator | Nov 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
The project – ‘Enhancing food and nutrition security and income generation through post-harvest value addition: A case of precooked beans’ – is a US$2.5 million project supported under the Cultivate Africa’s Future Fund (CultiAF) set up by Canada’s International...
