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More fruit for food security: developing climate-smart bananas for the African Great Lakes region
To support this research, we rely on Bioversity International’s Musa Germplasm Transit Centre (ITC), hosted at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) in Leuven that houses germplasm samples representing more than ...
Piloting the G+ customer and product profile tools for gender-responsive cassava breeding in Nigeria
The G+ tools developed by the CGIAR Crosscutting Research program, ‘Roots Tubers and Bananas’ through the Gender and Breeding Initiative provide a first attempt in streamlining a systematic social/gender inclusive customer ...
HarvestPlus final Project report on 'Identification and deployment of pVAC-rich plantain varieties'
Plantains (Musa spp. AAB) serve as a staple for millions of people in Africa and is one of the target crops for addressing provitamin A (pVA) deficiency. This project focuses on a food-based intervention against vitamin A ...
Gender Responsible Scaling (GRS) Tool workshop for Roots, Tubers and Bananas
Overall, feedback was very positive. Attendees felt that there was a definite need for a tool such as this, and that CGIAR project teams would benefit from sensitization and a methodological approach to gender inclusivity. ...