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Going global: How one woman in Uganda is taking cooking banana to the international market

Going global: How one woman in Uganda is taking cooking banana to the international market

This is the third installment in a series of in-depth blogs investigating the ways in which the RTB-ENDURE project is ...
Building blocks of life: The role of planting material in the cooking banana value chain in Uganda

Building blocks of life: The role of planting material in the cooking banana value chain in Uganda

This is the second installment in a series of in-depth blogs investigating the ways in which the RTB-ENDURE project is ...
Understanding potato seed degeneration to increase yields in Ecuador

Understanding potato seed degeneration to increase yields in Ecuador

The resilience of potato production systems in Andean countries heavily depends on seed quality. Under local conditions in Ecuador, the ...
Transforming the value chain - one cooking banana at a time

Transforming the value chain – one cooking banana at a time

This is the first installment in a series of in-depth blogs investigating the ways in which the RTB-ENDURE project is ...
Leave no one behind: Reflections on RTB’s participations at GCARD3

Leave no one behind: Reflections on RTB’s participations at GCARD3

Sara Quinn, Regional Communications Specialist, International Potato Center What does it mean to ‘leave no one behind’ in the world ...
Banana research in Africa: modern breeding techniques, regulatory and biosafety issues

Banana research in Africa: modern breeding techniques, regulatory and biosafety issues

Registration is now open for an advanced course ‘Banana research in Africa: modern breeding techniques, regulatory and biosafety issues‘ from 19 – ...
New project to build commercially sustainable cassava seed system in Nigeria

New project to build commercially sustainable cassava seed system in Nigeria

A four-year project (2015 – 2019) to develop a commercially sustainable cassava seed value chain in Nigeria, was officially launched ...
Gender, breeding and genomics workshop - Open call for case studies

Gender, breeding and genomics workshop – Open call for case studies

You are invited to submit an abstract for a case study of plant or animal breeding that has successfully incorporated ...
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 ...
Adding value and reducing postharvest losses in Uganda’s cooking banana value chain

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 ...
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 ...