Roots, tubers and bananas (RTBs) are essential for global food security – and delicious!  RTBs include bananas and plantains, cassava, ...
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Anniversaries are occasions to commemorate the past while looking to the future, to mark the evolution of “who we are” ...
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From its beginning in 2017, the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) has taken the lead to ...
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Households in Malawi that participated in projects promoting orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) varieties continued to grow the new varieties even several ...
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RTB Innovation Catalog successfully launched by CGIAR, users, and donors The RTB Innovation Catalog gathers creative ideas so that researchers ...
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Potatoes will play an increasingly important role in global food security in the coming decades. The potato crop is a ...
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When Access Agriculture started as a new, international NGO in 2012, we realized the importance of the root, tuber and ...
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Adding a winter crop of potatoes to rice cultivation can increase farm profitability and food production. However, pests and diseases ...
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Information gap One of the challenges for research for development organizations is to ensure their innovations are properly documented and ...
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Sweetpotato is a highly productive crop and orange-fleshed varieties are an excellent source of vitamin A, making it an important ...
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The CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) has a strong and close working relationship with Wageningen University ...
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Roots, tubers and bananas are the foundation of food security for millions of people across Asia, Africa and Latin America ...
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