by Patricia Onyango | Feb 24, 2022 | News, Uncategorized
For reduced market barriers, diversified enterprise and livelihood opportunities, and increased availability of diverse nutrient-rich foods How are bean flours empowering women in the African region? When the country plunged into a crisis as a result of the political...
by Patricia Onyango | Jul 26, 2021 | Latest News
What are Golden Eggs? The Research for Development (R4D) “products” developed during 10 years of CGIAR’s Research Programs/Platform, including breakthrough tools, technologies, prototypes, practices, policy options, networks, and methods that are at a stage of...
by Patricia Onyango | May 27, 2021 | Africa, Latest News, Uganda, Women
By Eileen Nchanji, Grace Nanyonjo, and Isaac Muggaga Common beans are a valuable crop across sub-Saharan Africa, contributing to food nutrition security and income for smallholder farmers. It was considered a subsistent crop mainly grown by women for food; with the...
by Patricia Onyango | May 1, 2021 | Latest News, Uncategorized
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 from the pool of older women carried out the process (Sperling 1992;...
by Patricia Onyango | Jul 7, 2020 | Latest News, Uncategorized
The increase in the productivity of the agricultural sector is prioritized by many countries in Africa and the private sector plays a key role in mobilizing knowledge, technologies from research, and factors of production to close the productivity gap of African...