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Distributing high iron and zinc bean varieties to women farmers in Kenya during COVID-19

Posted by Patricia Onyango on May 24, 2020

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

Posted by Patricia Onyango on May 18, 2020

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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Women entrepreneurs empowered through beans – Christella, Sheila

Posted by Patricia Onyango on April 22, 2020

Sheila Alumo, East Africa Development Company, Uganda Sheila Alumo is the Managing Director of the Eastern Agricultural Development Company Ltd…
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Making rural schools in Tanzania a better place to learn and thrive

Posted by Patricia Onyango on April 20, 2020

A large proportion of school children in Sub-Saharan Africa suffer from malnutrition, adversely affecting their physical growth and cognitive ability to learn. Many school-age children in food-insecure areas remain…
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Bean based products changing diets in Africa #EachforEqual

Posted by Patricia Onyango on February 24, 2020

By Eileen Nchanji, Gender Specialist – Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT With increasing urbanization, population growth and high cost of living, the diets in the urban areas are changing. Most…
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Towards faster cooking varieties of beans: ACIAR launches an innovative breeding project in East Africa

Posted by Patricia Onyango on December 10, 2019

KAMPALA, UGANDA, 10th, December 2019 – The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) has launched a new project in six countries in East Africa to improve common bean…
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Kenya partners review the future of High Iron Beans

Posted by Patricia Onyango on October 14, 2019

Kenya gets most of its beans from Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, and DRC as imports. This shows that Kenya is a big market and consumer of beans. If bean productivity…
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Precooked beans set to reach more households in Africa

Posted by Patricia Onyango on January 24, 2019

When the first phase of Cultivate Africa’s Future (CultiAF) project came to an end in 2016, it was clear that a larger scale production and dissemination plan was needed…
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Sustainable economic, food and nutrition for a better Africa.

Posted by Patricia Onyango on November 15, 2018

The Pan African Bean Research Alliance (PABRA), is a consortium of three regional bean research networks; East & Central Africa Bean Research Network (ECABREN), West Africa Bean Research Network…
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Super Flour to boost nutrition in Uganda

Posted by Patricia Onyango on September 26, 2018

Nutreal Ltd together with the National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO) Legumes Programme launched a nutrient dense porridge targeting low income communities. The launch…
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