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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 ...
Agroecological approaches to promote innovative banana production systems

Agroecological approaches to promote innovative banana production systems

Registration is now open to attend the X International Symposium on Banana / ISHS-ProMusa Symposium, which will be held from ...
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 ...
New technologies make cassava processing more efficient and sustainable

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 ...
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 ...
CIP Leads Initiative to Understand how Climate Change Affects Pests

CIP Leads Initiative to Understand how Climate Change Affects Pests

The Paris Agreement of December 2015 heralds a greater global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate the effects ...
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 ...
Queen's Anniversary Prize for ground-breaking work on cassava  awarded to RTB partner, NRI

Queen’s Anniversary Prize for ground-breaking work on cassava awarded to RTB partner, NRI

World-leading research and development on cassava by the Natural Resources Institute of the University of Greenwich (NRI) has been honored ...
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 ...
What’s in your noodle soup?

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 ...
Advancements in cassava processing for SE Asia highlighted at public, private-sector meeting

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 ...