Roots, tubers and bananas are the foundation of food security for millions of people across Asia, Africa and Latin America ...
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COVID-19 and the banana-infecting Fusarium wilt fungus race TR4 have a lot in common besides being acronyms. Both are emerging ...
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As One CGIAR takes shape it becomes critical to build on the progress already made. Participants in the virtual Golden ...
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During May 2021, the importance of root, tuber and banana crops was highlighted by Agrilinks, an online hub where agriculture, ...
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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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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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