Breeders, economists, gender specialists, and food technologists gathered to advance new approaches to breeding crop varieties that people will want ...

The production of root, tuber and banana crops (RTB crops) in developing countries has surged since 1960. A review recently ...

Twimanye Makoye is a commercial sweetpotato farmer in Bukombe District in Northwest Tanzania. He produces sweetpotato roots on about 14 ...

Toolbox for Working with Root, Tuber and Banana Seed Systems Join our launch: Tuesday, 2 March 2021, 15.00-16.00 East African ...

A review of Phase 2 (2017–2019) of the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) has concluded that ...

Many readers may never have heard of cocoyam. That’s hardly surprising as this is one of the most neglected crops ...

A research project may have all the requisites for solving a specific food security or nutritional challenge. Yet all too ...

A second edition of the indispensable handbook Tropical Root and Tuber Crops: Cassava, Sweet Potato, Yams and Aroids has been ...

A new report from the World Resources Institute points to ways in which roots, tubers and bananas are important ingredients ...