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10 Apr, 2016
Adding value and reducing postharvest losses in Uganda’s cooking banana value chain
Cooking banana is the main staple crop in Uganda produced mostly by smallholders for food and income. However, the cooking ...
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06 Apr, 2016
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 ...
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31 Mar, 2016
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 ...
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16 Feb, 2016
Six steps forward for root and tuber crops
Graham Thiele, Program Director, CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) shares his top six highlights from the ...
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10 Feb, 2016
New technologies make cassava processing more efficient and sustainable
As the global cassava industry continues to grow, new processing technologies are helping factories to reduce energy losses. The farming ...
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16 Dec, 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 ...
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15 Dec, 2015
What’s in your noodle soup?
You may never have heard of it before. A globetrotting crop by all accounts, it’s thought to have been introduced into ...
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14 Dec, 2015
Advancements in cassava processing for SE Asia highlighted at public, private-sector meeting
A cassava-processing workshop held in Bangkok from 2 – 4 December 2015 brought together researchers, and representatives of the private ...
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27 Oct, 2015
New potato storage facilities help Ugandan farmers increase incomes
Potato is a critical source of income and food security in Uganda. However due to constraints, including the high perishability ...
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15 Jan, 2015
Addressing postharvest losses in cassava value chains
Postharvest losses are an important challenge in developing countries, and the RTB Research Program has included the issue in its ...
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22 May, 2014
Strengthening NRI collaboration with the CGIAR Research Programme on Roots, Tubers and Bananas
The Natural Resources Institute (NRI) of the University of Greenwich recently organised and hosted a Review and Planning Workshop for ...
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27 Mar, 2014
RTB researchers examine how to make value chains more gender equitable
Fifteen researchers from four RTB centers (Bioversity, CIAT, CIP and IITA) have gathered in Entebbe, Uganda this week to share ...
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