by Patricia Onyango | Jan 25, 2022 | Burundi, Latest News, Uncategorized
Eric Nduwarugira, Nepomuscene Ntukamazina, Blaise Ndabashize, Patricia Onyango, Eileen Nchanji and Jean Claude Rubyogo Common beans are a major food and cash crop for more than 90% of smallholder farmers in Burundi. However, access to quality seed of improved...
by Patricia Onyango | Jan 6, 2022 | IDRC, Latest News, Uganda, Uncategorized
CultiAF precooked beans project is working to improve nutrition and address gender inequality in Kenya and Uganda. Beans enrich Ugandan households On the slope of a small hill in Kambugu village in Kiboga, Uganda, Jennifer Nakaye’s green, leafy...
by Patricia Onyango | Jun 21, 2021 | Africa, Latest News
Boaz Waswa, Josey Kamanda, Justin Mabeya, Eileen Nchanji, David Karanja, Patricia Onyango, Owen Kimani She wonders why she has to go through the tedious ritual of hitting the bean harvest using sticks to put food on her family’s table! “My hands are hard and...
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 | Sep 30, 2020 | Latest News, News
These articles first appeared in the Gender Newsletter dated 30 Sept 2020 by Eileen Nchanji – PABRA Gender Specialist in collaboration with gender focal persons in the National Agricultural Research Systems in various countries Adaptation aux changements...
