Having had the chance to witness the spread of better beans in East Africa it was great to hear that the, well, bean counters had been sent in to do a formal impact assessment. The results will form part a series of studies known as the Diffusion and I…
We’ve travelled about an hour north of Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, against the flow of UN trucks, to pull up at a thronging crossroads in Mita village. On the dusty traffic island are indicators that we’re not far from one of the …
Putting the science into African agriculture-with Africa Agriculture Science Week in Ghana fast approaching, CIAT sets the scene with a piece from Robin Buruchara, CIAT’s Africa Coordinator on the impact of investments in agricultural research i…
An update on the initial phase of an ongoing gender research, conducted by three visiting researchers from the Gender & Climate Change team. The research is done in order to map the household farming systems by gender to identify the productive activities, decision-making and resource use of men and women
