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Conservation of crop wild relatives of sweetpotato is key to crop improvement

Conservation of crop wild relatives of sweetpotato is key to crop improvement

Grown in more than 114 countries worldwide, sweetpotatoes are an important staple crop particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa and East and ...
First World Congress on Root and Tuber Crops will draw international crowd of scientists to Southern China

First World Congress on Root and Tuber Crops will draw international crowd of scientists to Southern China

Hundreds of the world’s top experts on potato, cassava, sweetpotato, yam and other root crops will gather in the city ...
Exploring banana diversity with the enhanced Musa germplasm information system

Exploring banana diversity with the enhanced Musa germplasm information system

The Musa Germplasm Information System (MGIS), the most extensive source of documentation on banana genetic resources, is now available on ...
Alliance reviews pilot control strategies for banana bunchy top disease in Africa

Alliance reviews pilot control strategies for banana bunchy top disease in Africa

Members of the Alliance for Banana Bunchy Top Disease (BBTD) Control in Africa met at the International Institute of Tropical ...
Getting the big picture with results-based management and participatory planning

Getting the big picture with results-based management and participatory planning

We all have a theory of change. Indeed, when we have a big goal to achieve, we think of what ...
Impact Network Analysis and Potato Seed Systems: The CONPAPA case in Ecuador

Impact Network Analysis and Potato Seed Systems: The CONPAPA case in Ecuador

Potato Seed Systems are made up of multiple levels of interactions among seed producers, farmers, private companies, governmental and non-governmental ...
RTB-NextGen Cassava project organizes gender research workshop in Nigeria in preparation for Phase II

RTB-NextGen Cassava project organizes gender research workshop in Nigeria in preparation for Phase II

Partners in the NEXTGEN Cassava Project and the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) were in Ibadan, ...
The effectiveness of knowledge sharing: The case of ProMusa, a global knowledge platform on banana

The effectiveness of knowledge sharing: The case of ProMusa, a global knowledge platform on banana

ProMusa is a knowledge-sharing platform on bananas managed by Bioversity International through funding from the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, ...
Lukas Mueller: Ace of Bases

Lukas Mueller: Ace of Bases

By Patricia Waldron Yam farmers in Africa may soon benefit from a large collection of genetic information contributed by local ...
Addressing postharvest losses in cassava value chains

Addressing postharvest losses in cassava value chains

Postharvest losses are an important challenge in developing countries, and the RTB Research Program has included the issue in its ...
RTB develops partnerships with US universities for gender research

RTB develops partnerships with US universities for gender research

Lisa Anderberg from Clark University will be the first graduate student to conduct gender analysis directly with a biological scientist ...
ILAC pilots transdisciplinary research on Banana Xanthomonas Wilt in DR Congo

ILAC pilots transdisciplinary research on Banana Xanthomonas Wilt in DR Congo

The Institutional Learning and Change (ILAC) Initiative, in partnership with Bioversity International and with funds from the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, ...