by Administrator | Sep 29, 2014 | Beans, CIAT, PABRA
The Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture is backing CIATs efforts, through PABRA, to strengthen bean seed systems in sub-Saharan Africa in collaboration with CIAT (through PABRA) and partners. The three year pilot project will focus on three countries –...
by Administrator | Jun 30, 2014 | Beans, CIAT, Kenya, PABRA, Partnership
Despite major successes in the continuous battle against the pests and diseases that blight agricultural production, millions of farmers across the world still lose part or their entire crop every year, affecting food security and livelihoods. Take cassava for...
by Administrator | Apr 29, 2014 | Beans, PABRA, Partnership, Rwanda
Rwanda’s fight against malnutrition, which affects nearly half of all children under two, stepped up a notch this month. A new survey targeting children under 24 months and women of reproductive age will root out the underlying causes of under nutrition, leading to...
by Administrator | Feb 4, 2014 | Beans, CIAT, Kenya, Partnership
In western Kenya’s drought-prone Narok District, Pastor Stanley Shunkuru (pictured) surveys his land. Today it lies barren, the sun burnt leaves of the last of his bean crop swaying in the breeze. And yet he smiles. The bean season is over and his crop has already...
by Administrator | Dec 10, 2013 | Beans, PABRA, Partnership
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 comes to finding solutions, it often pays to think small – a tactic...
