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PABRA mentors award winning scientist on Improving smallholder farmers’ food security through disease resistant common beans

PABRA mentors award winning scientist on Improving smallholder farmers’ food security through disease resistant common beans

by Patricia Onyango | Nov 26, 2020 | Africa, Latest News

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 at solutions that will maximize bean yields to ensure food and nutrition...
Common Beans: The Greener Pasture for Northern Tanzania Pastoralists

Common Beans: The Greener Pasture for Northern Tanzania Pastoralists

by Patricia Onyango | Oct 27, 2020 | Latest News

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 young men—warriors—living in the wilderness, moving their livestock from one...
Alternative income for rural women in Zimbabwe in the wake of COVID 19

Alternative income for rural women in Zimbabwe in the wake of COVID 19

by Patricia Onyango | Oct 14, 2020 | Latest News, Uncategorized

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 chicken to improve food and nutrition security in their...
Bundling inputs and agricultural extension services in a gender equitable manner to increases bean production in the lower Rift of Kenya

Bundling inputs and agricultural extension services in a gender equitable manner to increases bean production in the lower Rift of Kenya

by Patricia Onyango | Sep 23, 2020 | Africa, Latest News

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 even worse with the COVID-19 pandemic where there have been...
Little spaces promise more food and nutrition security for households in Kenya

Little spaces promise more food and nutrition security for households in Kenya

by Patricia Onyango | Sep 22, 2020 | Latest News

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 especially in urban and peri-urban areas calls for fresh ideas for ensuring a regular...
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