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PABRA mentors award winning scientist on Improving smallholder farmers’ food security through disease resistant common beans
Bean researchers are almost always cooped up in the laboratory and farm trials looking into various ways of improving production and productivity. They spend months and even years looking…
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Common Beans: The Greener Pasture for Northern Tanzania Pastoralists
By: Radegunda Kessy, Sylvia Kalemera, Fadhili Kasubiri, Patricia Onyango, Owen Kimani, Jean Claude Rubyogo For the longest time when one mentions Maasai, the image that comes to mind is of…
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Alternative income for rural women in Zimbabwe in the wake of COVID 19
By Nyarai Chisorochengwe Agriculture is primarily the backbone of Zimbabwe’s economy. To cope with the sting of poverty, most people, especially women, have ventured into growing various crops and rearing…
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Bundling inputs and agricultural extension services in a gender equitable manner to increases bean production in the lower Rift of Kenya
By Patricia Onyango, Boaz Waswa, Eileen Nchanji, Josey Kamanda, and Collins Leboo Across Africa, farmers’ access to agricultural advisory services is limited due to the weak extension systems. This is…
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Little spaces promise more food and nutrition security for households in Kenya
Boaz Waswa. Josey Kamanda and Patricia Onyango Did you know that with just a small space you can set up a kitchen garden with various crops including beans? Increasing land scarcity…
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Capitalizing on digital tools to sustain bean production, trade and consumption amidst COVID-19
This blog was published by Sylvia Kalemera, Patricia Onyango, Enid Katungi, Boaz Waswa, Eliud Birachi, Noel Templer, Fadhili Kasubiri, Kessy Radegunda, Elvira Omondi, Eward Mushi and Jean Claude Rubyogo When…
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Distributing high iron and zinc bean varieties to women farmers in Kenya during COVID-19
By Eileen Nchanji Achieving food and nutritional security and economic prosperity is possible even during this pandemic if men and women are given equal opportunities within an equitable system where…
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Beans, the new ‘cowpea’ in Ghana
The Crops Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CRI-CSIR), has introduced four new common bean (baked beans) varieties, for adoption by farmers. Hunger and malnutrition persist…
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How beans can address food, nutrition and income challenges during COVID 19.
By Robert Fungo The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant disruptions in food systems, especially on the poorest nations of Africa and Asia. PABRA explores how the bean crop can be…
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Women entrepreneurs empowered through beans – Christella, Sheila
Sheila Alumo, East Africa Development Company, Uganda Sheila Alumo is the Managing Director of the Eastern Agricultural Development Company Ltd…
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