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Exploring the potential of bean-based products through public-private partnerships and multi-stakeholder platforms in Malawi and Zambia
By Justice Munthali, Robert Fungo, Patricia Onyango, and Janet FierroMalawi and Zambia have shared history and culture, including diet patterns. In...
How women entrepreneurs are shaping bean farming in Malawi through Multistakeholder Platforms
By Yohane Chideya, Eluid Birachi, Wilson Nkhata, Jefferson Munyao & Jean Claude Rubyogo The time Thokozani Unyolo was starting her legume Seed...
Africa’s Beans: Big Benefits from SDC Support of an Innovative R&D Partnership
Beans are tiny but mighty! Beans are an important food protein and farm crop for more than 300 million Africans.ISABU bean breeding team making...
In Memory Of: Dr Roger Kirkby
Dear family, friends and loved ones of Roger Kirkby, At this time of deep sadness, the Crops for Nutrition and Health team wants to express their...
Taking the PABRA’s multi-stakeholders platform model to transform Nepal’s lentil value chain
by: Radegunda Kessy, Eliud Birachi, Jean Claude Rubyogo Lentil (Lens culinaris) also called dal is a leading legume in Nepal as staple for food and...
Beans is How announces Board, including PABRA, Google, The Kraft Heinz Company, WBCSD, and Chef Andrew Zimmern to support its mission of doubling global bean consumption by 2028
1 MAY 2023 - Seven new members have joined the Beans is How Board to steer, support and resource the ambitious campaign to double global bean...
PABRA’s ‘beans without borders’
Collaborating across Africa to tackle climate change, gender inequality & malnutrition How PABRA is harnessing the power of climate-smart beans,...
Woman’s seed business boosting community incomes and food security in Rwanda
by Emma Uwera, Edouard Rurangwa, Annuarite Uwera, Sylvia Kalemera, Jean Claude Rubyogo, Rachel Muthoni Andriatsitohaina Emma Uwera is a young seed...
Community fortune changes through bean trade in Kenya
by Helen Keti, Patricia Onyango Beans in Bomet county in Kenya are mostly grown for home consumption. If excess is available, the extra beans are...
Common bean breeding in Africa takes new and more rapid innovative techniques
by Winnie Nanteza1, Nkalubo Stanley1 Patricia Onyango2, Wallace Cowling3 and Mukankusi Clare2 1National Agricultural Research Organization...
Traditional knowledge helping research in identifying faster cooking bean varieties
by Job Wekhichu, Andrew Kabwama, Winnyfred Amongi, Clare Mukankusi, Patricia Onyango In ancient days, beans would take long to cook, this meant...
Irrigation schemes promise high bean yields in Zimbabwe
By Nyarai Chisorochengwe, Shylet Tsekenedza, Eileen Nchanji, Patricia Onyango, Owen Kimani Zimbabwean farmers are reaping good bean harvest from the...
Getting Lifeline Through Improved Bean Variety
By Yohane Chideya Even though she has been farming beans for many years, raking yields seasons-in-seasons-out Esther Jere was still not satisfied....
Low-cost phenotyping of root rot diseases for common bean
by Kato, F., Male, A., Amongi, W., Odama, R., Musoke, S., Acam, C., Nababi, H., Nakyazi, B., Naluwooza, C., Kabwama, A., Wekhichu, J., Ndati, J. and...
Affordable phenotyping for evaluating foliar diseases in common bean
by Kato, F., Male, A., Amongi, W., Odama, R., Musoke, S., Acam, C., Nababi, H., Nakyazi, B., Naluwooza, C., Kabwama, A., Wekhichu, J., Ndati, J. and...
Making the Bean Corridor work: Lessons from Zambia
Authors: Mwiinga Mulube, Kennedy Muimui, Robert Lungu, Wilson Nkhata, Eliud Birachi, Patricia Onyango, Rachel Muthoni Andriatsitohaina, Noel...
Canada visit reaffirms long-standing partnership and opportunities for the future
Pan Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) in collaboration with the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) hosted a...
How Can Multi-Stakeholder Platforms Drive Bean Seed Systems to Respond to Market Demand?
Smallholder farmers in Malawi struggle to find reliable buyers and fair prices for their crops, while grain traders struggle to find the necessary...
VACANCY: Bean Program Breeder
The Organization: The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) delivers research-based...
PABRA among 2022 Innovation Sprint winners
The Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate (AIM for Climate), a global initiative launched last November at the 26th United Nations Climate...
Bean seed multiplication business attracting more investment
By Authors: Sylvia Kalemera, Blaise Ndabashinze and Eric Nduwarugira, Astere Bararyenya, Patricia Onyango, Owen Kimani and Jean Claude Rubyogo Mr....