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WOMEN EMPOWERMENT THROUGH BEAN FLOURS
For reduced market barriers, diversified enterprise and livelihood opportunities, and increased availability of diverse nutrient-rich foods How are bean flours empowering women in the African region? When the country plunged into a crisis as a result of the political unrest that rocked Burundi, food shortages and population displacement was widespread.
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Empowering Zinduka Women’s Group in Tanzania to Produce Quality Bean Seed and Better Their Community
This post is by Fadhili Kasubiri, Michael Kilango, Agnes Ndunguru, Mary Ndimbo, Kessy Radegunda, Sylvia Kalemera, Patricia Onyango, Noel Templer, Teshale Mamo, Eileen Nchanji and Jean Claude Rubyogo. In 2010, a Zinduka women’s group based in the Mshewe village in the Mbeya region of the southern highlands of Tanzania was established.
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Can Informal Traders Drive Seed Security? A Case of Eastern DRC’s Bean and Cassava Business
This post is by Noel Templer, Mercy Mutua, Eliud Birachi, Sylvia Kalemera, Kijana Ruhebuza, Benjamin Wimba, Radegunda Kessy, Eileen Nchanji, Patricia Onyango and Jean-Claude Rubyogo. The eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) comprises North Kivu, South Kivu, Ituri, Maniema and Tanganyika. These provinces are populous and bear significant conflict effects,
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Participatory Approaches and Demand-Led Research Making Bean Seed Accessible to Millions of Smallholders in Burundi
by Sylvia Kalemera, Eric Nduwarugira, Nepomuscene Ntukamazina, Blaise Ndabashize, Noel Templer, Kessy Radegunda, Fadhili Kasubiri, Patricia Onyango and Jean Claude Rubyogo. Burundi is a landlocked country. Its economy depends mainly on agriculture, which contributes around 40 percent of the gross domestic product, employs 84 percent of the labor force and contributes
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Empowering women entrepreneurs to deliver quality bean seed in Burundi
Eric Nduwarugira, Nepomuscene Ntukamazina, Blaise Ndabashize, Patricia Onyango, Eileen Nchanji and Jean Claude Rubyogo Common beans are a major food and cash crop for more than 90% of smallholder farmers in Burundi. However, access to quality seed of improved bean varieties and related services remains a challenge in Burundi which does
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Banking on beans: Improving nutrition and addressing gender inequality in Africa’s bean value chains
CultiAF precooked beans project is working to improve nutrition and address gender inequality in Kenya and Uganda. Beans enrich Ugandan households On the slope of a small hill in Kambugu village in Kiboga, Uganda, Jennifer Nakaye’s green, leafy bean farm stretches over 1.2 ha. Nakaye, 61, keeps her thick, red beans in 90 kg sacks
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Building resilience for women bean farmers in Kenya in the wake of COVID 19 pandemic
By David Karanja, Patricia Onyango, Owen Kimani, Eileen Nchanji, and Jean Claude Rubyogo When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Kenya, it exacerbated the already struggling food system. Cognizant of multiple uses of beans, the Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) embarked on the promotion of wider use of beans to increase food
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New digital Atlas flags higher temperatures as key threat to bean production in Africa
By Rachel Muthoni Andriatsitohaina, Sean Mattson, Patricia Onyango, Owen Kimani, Elliot Gee, Andrew Farrow, Robin Buruchara and Jean Claude Rubyogo The digital atlas models changes in suitability for bean production in Africa over the next ten to twenty years and discovers that temperature is more important in determining beans distribution
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Grain Market: A Pull for Seed Businesses across Bean Corridors in Tanzania Webinar
The Feed the Future Global Supporting Seed Systems for Development (S34D) activity is implemented by Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and its consortium of partners. The analysis of the yellow bean corridor in Tanzania was conducted under S34D by a team of researchers at Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI), the Alliance of Biodiversity International
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Bean Business Innovation Platforms
For reduced market barriers, diversified enterprise and livelihood opportunities, and increased availability of diverse nutrient-rich foods What are Bean Business Innovation Platforms? Bean Business Platforms are vehicles designed to implement program interventions by bringing together diverse and critical actors to improve business ecosystems and incentivize actors in bean corridors. This