Breeders, economists, gender specialists, and food technologists gathered to advance new approaches to breeding crop varieties that people will want ...
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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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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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Women in smallholder farm households do much of the work on roots, tubers and bananas. They produce and process the ...
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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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Innovations in seed systems can have a powerful impact on crop production, particularly in combating pests and diseases that take ...
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Understanding farmers’ preferences and priorities when it comes to selecting seed is critical to ensuring that technologies for improved planting ...
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The status quo anchors our minds to the past. Good change management can shake this up. Here are four ways ...
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