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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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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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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A perspective from the  RTB Seed Systems Community of Practice The promise is that growing improved varieties will end hunger, ...
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“Pandemic” has become a household term over the past year, but uncontrolled disease outbreaks do not occur solely in humans ...
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Plant breeders are generally looking for heterosis, where the offspring of a cross performs significantly better on some measure than ...
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Agricultural innovation arises through the dynamic interactions of the actors who grow, process, distribute and consume farm products. An innovation ...
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