After 60 years, Kenya now has four bean varieties that meet the industry criteria for canning quality. These are the first new varieties since the Mexican 142 bean variety was introduced in the late 1960 from Tanzania.
The Bio-resources Innovations Network for Eastern Africa Development (Bio-Innovate) Program was established in 2010 to support multi-disciplinary biosciences and product oriented innovation activities in the eastern Africa countries of Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Reblogged from the The FARA – AASW Blog
I am greatly impressed by what I see as I walk from booth to booth at the Accra International Conference Centre. Many of those who are gathered here are exhibiting their current work and new innovations.
Kenyan conservationist Calestous Juma explains how genetic engineering doesn’t have to threaten small-scale farmers.
Addressing Africa’s real agricultural issues.
Among the issues exercising the minds of those concerned with the future welfare of the African continent and its people is the issue of farm size.
It is some minutes past 1 pm, the sun is blazing, but in the middle of a one-acre piece of plot, James Mwaura smiles as he shows off a promising bean crop. As it turned out, Bahati in Nakuru County, where Mwaura hails from,
A clamor to improve Africa’s agricultural value chains by greater industrialization of many of Africa’s agricultural processes was heard often at the just-completed sixth Africa Agricultural Science Week (AASW6), held in Accra 15–20 Jul 2013 and organized by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa.
Between May and October 2012, the PMO in conjunction with the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) participated in the monitoring and review of projects to assess progress made during the first year of implementation.
For eastern Africa countries to transform into bio-economies, it would require collaborative capacity building efforts to create a critical mass of scientists in the field of biosciences.
