Women-led seed innovation: PABRA boosts Emma’s high-iron bean expansion in Rwanda
Driven by passion, Rwandan entrepreneur Emma Uwera has grown her high-iron bean business in Eastern Province and beyond, with Sall Foundation and Global Affairs Canada support, improving farmer access, nutrition, and incomes through better seeds and irrigation.
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Women-led seed innovation: PABRA boosts Emma’s high-iron bean expansion in Rwanda
Driven by passion, Rwandan entrepreneur Emma Uwera has grown her high-iron bean business in Eastern Province and beyond, with Sall Foundation and Global Affairs Canada support, improving farmer access, nutrition, and incomes through better seeds and irrigation.
If you take a moment to sit with Emma Uwera, you will quickly discover two things: her unwavering love for beans and her dedication to helping others cultivate them. Behind this passion lies a narrative of collaboration, opportunity, and remarkable change, largely supported by the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT through the Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) and the Rwanda Agriculture and Animal Resources Development Board (RAB). “Beans,” she chuckles, “I really love beans.” It’s a sentiment that might surprise many, but for Emma, beans are woven into the very fabric of her existence as a scientist, a mother, a businesswoman, and a changemaker - not just in her own Rwamagana District, but throughout Rwanda's Eastern Province and beyond.