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11 Apr, 2016
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 ...
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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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01 Feb, 2016
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 ...
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14 Jan, 2016
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 ...
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12 Dec, 2015
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 ...
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02 Nov, 2015
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, ...
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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 Oct, 2015
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 ...
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23 Jul, 2015
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 ...
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29 Apr, 2015
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 ...
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27 Apr, 2015
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. ...
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