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RTB Annual Report 2012

RTB publishes first annual report

Teaming Up for Greater Impact is the title of the first RTB Annual Report, which documents the initial steps taken ...
Online mapping tool for analysis and planning receives international award

Online mapping tool for analysis and planning receives international award

RTBMaps – a web-based GIS (Geographic Information Systems) tool to help planners visualize data and analyze options for using roots, ...
In Cameroon, a dynamic cassava value chain with weaknesses

In Cameroon, a dynamic cassava value chain with weaknesses

By Dominique Dufour Cameroon has a long agricultural tradition: of its 20 million people, 8 million live in rural areas, ...
Au Cameroun, une filière manioc dynamique mais à valoriser

Au Cameroun, une filière manioc dynamique mais à valoriser

Le Cameroun possède une longue tradition agricole : sur les 20 millions d’habitants que compte le pays, 8 millions vivent en ...
Developing an RTB seed system framework

Developing an RTB seed system framework

RTB seed systems are notoriously tricky because their vegetatively propagated seed is bulky and perishable. Getting improved varieties quicker to ...
"Game changing technologies" needed to fight cassava diseases

“Game changing technologies” needed to fight cassava diseases

Alarming outbreaks of two devastating cassava diseases in Africa have prompted an alliance of experts to make an unprecedented international ...
Global Musa Expert Workshop: Production constraints, yield gaps, and research strategies for smallholder banana production

Global Musa Expert Workshop: Production constraints, yield gaps, and research strategies for smallholder banana production

As part of the multi-crop priority assessment exercise coordinated by RTB, the Global Musa Expert Workshop took place in Kampala, ...
Learning About RTB Research and its Impact on Farmers in Uganda

Learning About RTB Research and its Impact on Farmers in Uganda

By Graham Thiele, RTB Director Uganda is a hub location for RTB with all our crops and projects of all ...
First Steps Completed for the Priority Assessment for Roots, Tubers and Bananas

First Steps Completed for the Priority Assessment for Roots, Tubers and Bananas

Launched in June 2012, the Strategic Assessment of research priorities for RTB crops is now entering a new phase. After ...
Roots, Tubers and Bananas - Working on “Flagship Products” towards Intermediate Development Outcomes

Roots, Tubers and Bananas – Working on “Flagship Products” towards Intermediate Development Outcomes

Sophie Alvarez, a consultant at CIAT, had the opportunity to facilitate a meeting of representatives of the four RTB participating Centers ...
Mosaic and Brown Streak Disease in Cassava

Scientists alarmed by the rapid spread of brown streak disease in cassava, a crop that sustains 300 million Africans

World’s cassava experts to wage war against cassava viruses; Introduction into Nigeria, the largest cassava producer in the world, could ...
Banana Survey Results to be used to Select Research Options at Expert Uganda Workshop

Banana Survey Results to be used to Select Research Options at Expert Uganda Workshop

Browse through the results and join the online discussion. The results of a survey of banana experts, conducted at the ...