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Linkages between staple crops research and poverty outcomes

Linkages between staple crops research and poverty outcomes

The Independent Science and Partnership Council’s (ISPC) Science Forum 2016 from 12 – 14 April in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, will ...
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 ...
Six steps forward for root and tuber crops

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 ...
Hatunpa restaurant revitalizing the native potato in Arequipa

Hatunpa restaurant revitalizing the native potato in Arequipa

Blog by Graham Thiele, RTB Program Director At the beginning of January I visited the Hatunpa restaurant just round the ...
Assessing the impact of Cooperation-88 potatoes in China

Assessing the impact of Cooperation-88 potatoes in China

Potatoes came to China in the early 1600s but were not a major crop until the 1980s. By 1993, China ...
Potato and Sweetpotato in Africa: Transforming the Value Chains for Food and Nutrition Security

Potato and Sweetpotato in Africa: Transforming the Value Chains for Food and Nutrition Security

Potato and sweetpotato are two important crops in the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas portfolio and of ...
New evidence supports integrated seed health strategy as best option for raising potato yields

New evidence supports integrated seed health strategy as best option for raising potato yields

Potato is the third most important food crop globally and over half of all production occurs in developing countries. However, ...
New potato storage facilities help Ugandan farmers increase incomes

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Scientists call for action to preserve potato wild relatives

Scientists call for action to preserve potato wild relatives

Crop wild relatives are wild plant species that share a common ancestor with cultivated crops. They retain a level of ...
Towards an early warning system for late blight in East Africa

Towards an early warning system for late blight in East Africa

In 2012 young researcher Anne Njoroge started her work with the population structure of Phytophthora infestans in East African countries.  ...