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Lessons from 21 years of breeding Eastern Africa‘s popular cooking bananas

Lessons from 21 years of breeding Eastern Africa‘s popular cooking bananas

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and Uganda’s National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO) started a breeding program for the ...
Safeguarding the future of banana against changing climates, pests and diseases

Safeguarding the future of banana against changing climates, pests and diseases

KU Leuven and Bioversity International today sign a landmark agreement to safeguard the future of the world’s favourite fruit.  Professor Rony ...
Malawian entrepreneur creates nutritious products and a new market for farmers

Malawian entrepreneur creates nutritious products and a new market for farmers

After six years of helping others add value to their businesses, Malawian food technologist Jean Pankuku was so convinced of ...
Scaling Triple S through collaborating with Damongo Agricultural College, Ghana

Scaling Triple S through collaborating with Damongo Agricultural College, Ghana

In July 2018 Issahaq Suleman, CIP’s Triple S scaling champion in Ghana, paid a visit to Damongo Agricultural College in ...
Capturing stories of women through the Most Significant Change Approach

Capturing stories of women through the Most Significant Change Approach

Story-telling is a powerful communication tool as it is useful to captivate people’s interest. The Food Resilience through Root and ...
Small investment, Big results!

Small investment, Big results!

How village savings and loans groups, orange fleshed sweetpotato and the Triple-S innovation are empowering women in Northern Ghana. ‘For ...
Who sits at the table? Policy, people, and potatoes in Kenya

Who sits at the table? Policy, people, and potatoes in Kenya

Although it might seem surprising, many Kenyan farmers, entrepreneurs, and investors are intensely interested in the preparation of new regulations ...
Global study guides agriculture towards gender equality

Global study guides agriculture towards gender equality

Now more than ever, the agricultural research for development sector recognizes that women’s needs, preferences and realities need to be ...
Seed Tracker: How one app can enhance seed systems for many crops

Seed Tracker: How one app can enhance seed systems for many crops

Thanks to its tolerance of poor soil, harsh conditions, pests and diseases, cassava is a stable, low-cost staple for millions ...
How can you integrate gender and nutrition in your research?

How can you integrate gender and nutrition in your research?

The Consortium for Improving Agriculture-based Livelihoods in Central Africa (CIALCA), a CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) project, organized ...
Setting the stage for cassava disease monitoring: a baseline for Vietnam and Cambodia

Setting the stage for cassava disease monitoring: a baseline for Vietnam and Cambodia

Researchers tracked Sri Lankan cassava mosaic virus in Cambodia after its discovery in 2015. The potentially devastating virus threatens 3.5 ...
Triple S method secures sweetpotato planting material for farmers

Triple S method secures sweetpotato planting material for farmers

“Next season I will fill my farm, and my father's farm, with sweetpotato,” says Bezabih Hamamo, who is using Triple ...