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Making use of sweetpotato vines as silage

Making use of sweetpotato vines as silage

When James Francis Ojakol enrolled for a Master degree in animal science at Makerere University, he had no idea how ...
Reinforcing the gender lens in research on value chains and technology adoption

Reinforcing the gender lens in research on value chains and technology adoption

The following post by André Devaux, Claudia Babini, Diego Naziri, Caitlin Kieran, and Evgeniya Anisimova was originally published on the CGIAR Research ...
GREAT Webinar: Equipping agricultural researchers to conduct gender responsive research for inclusive and effective agricultural systems

GREAT Webinar: Equipping agricultural researchers to conduct gender responsive research for inclusive and effective agricultural systems

A series of courses by the GREAT project tailored to specific disciplines and value chains, provide agricultural researchers from sub-Saharan ...
What drives consumers to purchase biofortified Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato?

What drives consumers to purchase biofortified Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato?

Chinonso Etumnu, Department of Economics, University of San Francisco, examines whether intra-household bargaining power and health information influence consumer acceptance of Orange-Fleshed Sweet ...
A year in review: Highlights from the RTB Annual Meeting 2015

A year in review: Highlights from the RTB Annual Meeting 2015

The Annual Review and Planning Meeting of the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) took place last ...
Enabling gender equality in agricultural and environmental innovation

Enabling gender equality in agricultural and environmental innovation

Through the global study ‘GENNOVATE: Enabling gender equality in agricultural and environmental innovation’, roughly 6,000 rural study participants of different ...
Making Women Visible in Agriculture: New issue of AgriGender

Making Women Visible in Agriculture: New issue of AgriGender

To coincide with the International Day of Rural Women, the Journal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security has released its ...
RTB and PIM collaborate to make value chain work gender responsive

RTB and PIM collaborate to make value chain work gender responsive

With the aim of making postharvest work more inclusive, effective and equitable, RTB teamed up with the CGIAR Research Program ...
Incorporating women’s needs and preferences into RTB breeding

Incorporating women’s needs and preferences into RTB breeding

There have been many cases in which improved crop varieties released by national agricultural research and extension systems (NARES) were ...
Strong new gender focus in revised manual on participatory varietal selection

Strong new gender focus in revised manual on participatory varietal selection

Thanks to support from RTB, a CIP training manual on participatory varietal selection (PVS) has been improved by adding gender-sensitive ...
RTB-NextGen Cassava project organizes gender research workshop in Nigeria in preparation for Phase II

RTB-NextGen Cassava project organizes gender research workshop in Nigeria in preparation for Phase II

Partners in the NEXTGEN Cassava Project and the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) were in Ibadan, ...
Gender Implications for Next Generation Breeding: Seminar by Graham Thiele at Cornell University

Gender Implications for Next Generation Breeding: Seminar by Graham Thiele at Cornell University

Graham Thiele, RTB Director, visited Cornell University in October at the invitation of Hale Tufan, Project Manager for the NEXTGEN ...