South Sudan has joined the Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA). The world’s newest country, which will celebrate its second birthday this month, officially became the 30th member of the CIAT-coordinated network following a signing at the federa…
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Interpreting yield variation in commercial production of crops: An alternative to strategies for bridging the yield gap
As part of the modeling workshops started by the Decision and Policy Analysis (DAPA) research area few months ago, last week Daniel Jiménez gave a presentation about the experiences of the Site –specific agriculture team “Interpreting Yield variat…

Mineral fertiliser is the key to unlocking Africa’s agricultural potential
What is the answer to increasing fertiliser use in Africa? It’s a question many have asked for decades, yet, despite a myriad of meetings, programmes, movements and initiatives, the vast majority of efforts to increase fertiliser use among smallholde…

From PLOS Biology: Where Have All the Crop Phenotypes Gone?
Cross-posted from AgTrials Blog AgTrials colleagues may be interested in this article on crop phenotyping from the Journal PLOS Biology. As I read this, I thought about many of the similar issues that our AgTrials community has faced in the development…
