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RTB and PIM collaborate to make value chain work gender responsive

RTB and PIM collaborate to make value chain work gender responsive

With the aim of making postharvest work more inclusive, effective and equitable, RTB teamed up with the CGIAR Research Program ...
First Independent Steering Committee gathered in Lima to review progress of RTB program

First Independent Steering Committee gathered in Lima to review progress of RTB program

A report by Graham Thiele, RTB Director RTB is delighted to have held the first face to face meeting of ...
Benchmark for mechanized cassava processing

Benchmark for mechanized cassava processing

A photo report about the visit to Niji Lukas Group, Ilero, Oyo State, Nigeria by Thierry Tran IITA, a participating ...
Clean planting material to combat Moko disease of plantains in Latin America

Clean planting material to combat Moko disease of plantains in Latin America

Moko bacterial wilt is the principal bacterial disease limiting plantain production in Latin America and the Caribbean, and it is ...
Opportunities for improvements in small scale gari processing in Nigeria

Opportunities for improvements in small scale gari processing in Nigeria

A photo report about the visit to the Ajegunle cassava processing site in Oyo town by Graham Thiele Processing cassava ...
Incorporating women’s needs and preferences into RTB breeding

Incorporating women’s needs and preferences into RTB breeding

There have been many cases in which improved crop varieties released by national agricultural research and extension systems (NARES) were ...
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 ...
New website launched for the RTB-ENDURE project

New website launched for the RTB-ENDURE project

In Sub-Saharan Africa, root, tuber and banana crops are characterized by high postharvest losses, short marketing channels and limited value adding ...
Yuca colombiana, modelo de interés para Uganda

Yuca colombiana, modelo de interés para Uganda

Representantes del Instituto Internacional de Reconstrucción Rural (IIRR, por sus siglas en inglés) y los Laboratorios Nacionales de Investigación Agrícola ...
RTB published 2014 Annual Report

RTB published 2014 Annual Report

RTB presents its 2014 Annual Report – Envisioning Impact: Pathways to Action. The report documents important progress on an array ...
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.  ...