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New potato storage facilities help Ugandan farmers increase incomes

New potato storage facilities help Ugandan farmers increase incomes

Potato is a critical source of income and food security in Uganda. However due to constraints, including the high perishability ...
Making Women Visible in Agriculture: New issue of AgriGender

Making Women Visible in Agriculture: New issue of AgriGender

To coincide with the International Day of Rural Women, the Journal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security has released its ...
Benchmark for mechanized cassava processing

Benchmark for mechanized cassava processing

A photo report about the visit to Niji Lukas Group, Ilero, Oyo State, Nigeria by Thierry Tran IITA, a participating ...
Opportunities for improvements in small scale gari processing in Nigeria

Opportunities for improvements in small scale gari processing in Nigeria

A photo report about the visit to the Ajegunle cassava processing site in Oyo town by Graham Thiele Processing cassava ...
Partnerships and prompt response, key to prevent the spread of banana Fusarium wilt (‘Panama disease’)

Partnerships and prompt response, key to prevent the spread of banana Fusarium wilt (‘Panama disease’)

In the first part of the 20th century, Fusarium Wilt Race 1 (popularly known as ‘Panama disease’) wiped out the ...
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 ...
Simulated potato yield gaps in Sub-Saharan Africa exceed the best on-station trial yields

Simulated potato yield gaps in Sub-Saharan Africa exceed the best on-station trial yields

By CIP’s Production System and Environment Sub-Program - Yield gap analysis is an important tool to estimate to what extent ...
Predicting climate change’s impact on crop pests and diseases

Predicting climate change’s impact on crop pests and diseases

As researchers try to predict the potential threat that pests and diseases pose for RTB crops, and develop strategies to ...
Reaching out to Eastern and Central African partners at ASARECA conference

Reaching out to Eastern and Central African partners at ASARECA conference

By Graham Thiele, RTB Director Attending the General Assembly and Scientific Conference of the Association for strengthening Agricultural Research in ...
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