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Forging the impact pathway to better potato harvests in Africa

Forging the impact pathway to better potato harvests in Africa

A common goal of RTB and the International Potato Center (CIP) is to increase potato productivity by improving farmer access ...
Cocoyam's potential for nutrition and income still to be tapped

Cocoyam’s potential for nutrition and income still to be tapped

Cocoyam, a generic term for both Xanthosoma and Colocasia, is a traditional staple root crop in many developing countries in ...
Controlling Banana Xanthomonas Wilt with the single diseased stem removal technique

Controlling Banana Xanthomonas Wilt with the single diseased stem removal technique

The bacterial disease Banana Xanthomonas wilt (better known as BXW) has caused significant losses in banana production in East and ...
International meeting results in Pan-African cassava disease network

International meeting results in Pan-African cassava disease network

Scientists from international agricultural research centers and African national and regional institutions met in Saint-Pierre, La Réunion from June 10 ...
New online tool allows exchange of knowledge on plant gene families

New online tool allows exchange of knowledge on plant gene families

GreenPhylDB is a comparative genomics platform which has been developed since 2006 by Bioversity International with support from CIRAD and ...
International experts gather to address diseases threatening Africa’s cassava production

International experts gather to address diseases threatening Africa’s cassava production

Cassava is the second most important staple in Africa and is regularly consumed by more than 700 million people around ...
Strengthening NRI collaboration with the CGIAR Research Programme on Roots, Tubers and Bananas

Strengthening NRI collaboration with the CGIAR Research Programme on Roots, Tubers and Bananas

The Natural Resources Institute (NRI) of the University of Greenwich recently organised and hosted a Review and Planning Workshop for ...
Looking Ahead: RTB Extension Request for 2015-2016

Looking Ahead: RTB Extension Request for 2015-2016

The CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) started in 2012 as a cross-center and cross-cutting initiative, with ...
‘Bellagio Roadmap’ to fight cassava viruses now published

‘Bellagio Roadmap’ to fight cassava viruses now published

The Food Security Journal has just published the Bellagio Conference Roadmap, an action plan developed last year for fighting the ...
Publication du plan d’action pour combattre les maladies du manioc

Publication du plan d’action pour combattre les maladies du manioc

Le Food Security Journal vient de publier la feuille de route de la Conférence de Bellagio contre les maladies du ...
RTB Program Advisory Committee gets underway

RTB Program Advisory Committee gets underway

RTB can now count on its Program Advisory Committee (PAC) to help optimize the impact of its research for development ...
Surveying experts in India and Tanzania to fill seed degeneration knowledge gaps

Surveying experts in India and Tanzania to fill seed degeneration knowledge gaps

Sara Thomas-Sharma, a post-doctoral researcher at Kansas State University, was hired in 2013 to work on an RTB project to ...