PABRA News
Here you’ll find the latest on everything happening around our organization. From innovative projects to breakthroughs in bean production and distribution, stay up to date with everything happening at PABRA and its impact on agriculture and food security in Africa. Follow our news and be part of the change!”
Beans in classroom: Teachers fuel nutrition and empowerment in eastern DRC
By Napoleon Kajunju, Lucky Kalisya, Lydie Mulonda, Bola Amoke Awotide, Jean Claude Rubyogo Skies of Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have witnessed decades of conflict and hardship that have taken a heavy toll, but amidst such struggles, a special revolution...
Beans that break the cycle: Food, freedom, and female power in DRC
By Bola Amoke Awotide, Julie Ntawinja, Lydie Mulonda, Yohane Chideya, Hosny Dunia, Richard Kataliko, Lucky Kalisya, and Jean Claude Rubyogo Once marked by displacement and silence, the fields of Masisi are now alive with purpose. In this post-conflict corner of the...
PABRA empowers Rwanda’s school nutrition with 3-tons High-Iron Bean seeds
By Yvonne Munyangeri, Eliud Birachi, Jean Claude Rubyogo What if the key to better school performance, stronger communities, and healthier futures could start with a single bean seed? In Rwanda, that idea is becoming reality. As the government intensifies its efforts...
Rooted in beans, rising in business: How a family in Goma is growing bean empire
By Napoleon Kajunju, Jean Claude Rubyogo, Bola Awotide, Lydie Mulonda, Paulin Njingulura, Julie Ntamwinja, Lucky Kalisya, Nepomuscene Ntukamazina In a city where food insecurity shadows daily life and opportunity feels just out of reach, Sadiki and his wife Huguette...
From parched land to productive farms: AID-I paves the way in Malawi
By Eunice Magwaya, Wilson Nkhata, and Jean Claude Rubyogo In the early morning light of Mdere, a quiet farming community tucked into Malawi’s southern Machinga district, rows of green bean plants stretch across what was once parched, underutilized land. Hanifa...
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, gender equality, and collaborative governance to spread fairness and prosperity across Africa and increase bean...
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 high-level delegation from the Canadian government at Duduville campus in icipe. The delegation led by Ms. Ioanna Sahas Martin,...
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. Leonidas Nimpagaritse, is a hardworking man. He is a common bean seed producer based in Gitega province in Burundi....
25 years of PABRA’s bean transformation in Africa
During the inaugural AGRF meeting in Kigali Rwanda, Pan Africa Bean Research Alliance Improved yields, incomes and nutrition, from the beans. “Hearing from the mothers and grandmother in Siaya county in Kenya of how the income from beans is paying for the children’s...
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...
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