Gender and Nutrition considerations in Demand Led Breeding: Experiences from Rwanda

Annuarite Uwera, Eileen Nchanji, Clare Mukankusi, and Patricia Onyango Participatory plant breeding is not new in Rwanda. Its history can be traced between 1988 to 1990 when local experts drawn…

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Demand – led Breeding through a Gender lens: Experiences from Zimbabwe

Bruce Mutari, Patience Mashiri, Eileen Nchanji, Clare Mukankusi, and Patricia Onyango Discussions on gender integration in conventional breeding are not new. These talks started in the 1980s when women farmers…

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Beans making rural schools in Tanzania a better place to learn and thrive

by Patricia Onyango 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…

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Reaping the benefits of using certified bean seed

Walking down Kwamagana town in Rwanda, we find Alexis Nzeyimana on a motorcycle by one of his plots. Nicknamed ‘Rukirigitafaranga’, meaning tickling money in Kinyarwanda, Alexis has three farm sites…

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Good things come in small packages

Smallholder farms are just that, small. Small farms, and, invariably, small incomes.While the one of the aims of agricultural research is to increase productivity and create bigger incomes, when it…

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