Plant breeders thought they were on the right track when they released a new hybrid variety of matooke, a variety ...
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Once upon a time two women, one very beautiful and one not so beautiful, were gathering wild yams in the ...
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When it comes to agricultural systems, women and men don’t always see eye to eye. Their preferences, experiences, and the ...
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A new online process that enabled the Initiative Design Team (IDT) with a large group of genebank managers collaboratively to ...
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Ask any child who is well versed in Aesop’s fables and you will learn that golden eggs can be a ...
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Breeders, economists, gender specialists, and food technologists gathered to advance new approaches to breeding crop varieties that people will want ...
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The production of root, tuber and banana crops (RTB crops) in developing countries has surged since 1960. A review recently ...
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Twimanye Makoye is a commercial sweetpotato farmer in Bukombe District in Northwest Tanzania. He produces sweetpotato roots on about 14 ...
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New crop varieties can help farmers thrive in difficult agricultural conditions, feed families and create livelihoods when sold or processed ...
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Tagging products with barcodes for easy price retrieval in supermarkets is now a regular practice that people often take for ...
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Toolbox for Working with Root, Tuber and Banana Seed Systems Join our launch: Tuesday, 2 March 2021, 15.00-16.00 East African ...
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A review of Phase 2 (2017–2019) of the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) has concluded that ...
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