In late May the International Potato Centre (CIP) organized a stakeholder engagement and launch meeting in Nairobi, Kenya bringing together ...

Scientists have, for the first time, located the position of major quantitative trait loci associated with bunch weight and its ...

Ensuring plant breeders can take women into account M9 is the code name of a new banana variety developed for ...

The very thing that makes bananas so easy to eat – they don’t have seeds – also makes them hard ...

On behalf of the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas and the Gender and Breeding Initiative, we would ...

It’s hard to overstate the importance of root, tuber, and banana (RTB crops) for smallholder farmers in the Great Lakes ...

This June, scientists from all over the world convened in the south of France for a unique conference. Held every ...

Crops such as bananas, potatoes, and cassava are essential to food security in the world’s poorest regions. By 2050, their ...

Roots, tubers and bananas share one characteristic that unites them in the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tuber and Bananas ...

Insect pests and diseases are high on the list of concerns for farmers of root, tuber, and banana (RTB) crops ...

Experimental auctions reveal the true willingness of farmers to pay (WTP) for various farming inputs. This is one of the ...

With funding from the Roots, Tubers and Bananas Research Program (RTB), the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) led a ...