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🎉 Celebrate 30 years of PABRA!
Since 1996, PABRA has advanced🫘 innovation, improved nutrition, strengthened livelihoods, & built resilience for millions across Africa.
As we count down to celebrations this August, explore our remarkable impact.
👉🔗bit.ly/4uUaenX
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As we approach #PABRA30, today we celebrate @ImaraTech🇹🇿. From 6 multi-crop threshers to over 1,000 sold, the youth-led enterprise is reducing the drudgery of crop threshing esp. for women, while transforming livelihoods.
Watch their journey in this👉📰 : bit.ly/4uUaenX
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At #WFO2026 Annual Meeting in Nairobi🇰🇪 by @worldfarmersorg, one idea stood up: "Scale what already works."
PABRA & partners showcased innovations. From Waithera beans yielding up to 3x more, to market-ready "Githeri-on-the-Go". The solutions exist. Now let's scale together!
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🤝From partnership to action! Last week in Tanzania, @BiovIntCIAT_eng, Farm Africa & @TanzaniaTari aligned efforts under the #ACCELERATEProject to scale improved bean, sorghum & groundnut varieties, expand school feeding & dietary health initiatives, drive joint fundraising.
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A memorable week in Rwanda🇷🇼 as @BiovIntCIAT_eng thru #PABRA & @RwandaGov launched #3SFI by @SwissDevCoop—a bold step toward nourishing over 440K learners across 509 schools thru sustainable school feeding, better nutrition🫘 & stronger local food systems.
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This Tuesday, all roads lead to Rusizi District!🇷🇼
@BiovIntCIAT_eng thru PABRA, with @RwandaGov, launch the 3SFI Project to transform school feeding thru nutrition, agriculture & community action in Rusizi, Nyamasheke & Karongi—supported by @SwissDevCoop.
bit.ly/4foUF2P
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May 28
During the launch of #3SFI Project, the @BiovIntCIAT_eng through @_PABRA donated #seedplanters to schools, empowering communities to grow high-iron beans right where children learn.
Together with @SwissDevCoop, @RwandaGov & @RusiziDistrict, 3SFI is feeding Rwanda's future. 🇷🇼
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Today, Ueli Mauderli, Acting Head of Cooperation at the Swiss Embassy, paid a courtesy call to the Rusizi Mayor & visited #3SFIProject activities by @BiovIntCIAT_eng's PABRA & @RwandaGov, supported by @SwissDevCoop. 3SFI is fighting malnutrition thru school feeding innovations.
This Tuesday, all roads lead to Rusizi District!🇷🇼
@BiovIntCIAT_eng thru PABRA, with @RwandaGov, launch the 3SFI Project to transform school feeding thru nutrition, agriculture & community action in Rusizi, Nyamasheke & Karongi—supported by @SwissDevCoop.
bit.ly/4foUF2P
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This Tuesday, all roads lead to Rusizi District!🇷🇼
@BiovIntCIAT_eng thru PABRA, with @RwandaGov, launch the 3SFI Project to transform school feeding thru nutrition, agriculture & community action in Rusizi, Nyamasheke & Karongi—supported by @SwissDevCoop.
bit.ly/4foUF2P
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Strengthening Africa’s bean 🫘 breeding systems!
Technicians from 11 countries under #PABRA advance market-responsive breeding, seed systems & innovation—building resilient food systems & next-gen scientists. @JcRubyogo highlights their key role in shaping the future of beans.
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🐝🌱 #WorldBeeDay reminds us: bees are key allies in food security. Through #BRAINSProject with @icipe, we link beans, fruit trees & pollination systems—strengthening nutrition, biodiversity & resilient farming in Africa.
Bee together for people & the planet 🌍💚 & #SaveTheBees
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During the BIOBELIEF Project Data Analysis Workshop last week, researchers advanced efforts to identify drought-tolerant bean varieties that can strengthen food security under changing climate conditions.
A partnership between @kalromkulima & #PABRA, supported by the @nrfkenya.
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Stronger partnerships for stronger grain and seed systems.
@CIMMYT, @TanzaniaTari, @scitanzania, @InadesTanzania, & TanGrain are collaborating to boost grain & seed business growth & accelerate varietal turnover in Tanzania with support from the @gatesfoundation thru #PABRA.
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Collaboration in action!
Last week, @BiovIntCIAT_eng in Rwanda met Ikijumba One Stop Shop (@IkijumbaCoffee), to explore integrating high iron beans🫘 into potato-based🍠 products.
Aim: Bean-based nutritious biscuits developed thru @_PABRA support & expand markets. #Nutrition
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The impact in Rwandan schools thru #SustainableSchoolFeedingInitiative by @BiovIntCIAT_eng is top-notch.
High iron beans🫘 are reducing nutrition malnutrition, with visible changes in children. Demo plots are now learning hubs for skills, seed multiplication & varieties access.
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For years, we pushed seed to farmers, yet Africa’s seed future is not built in labs. In Tanzania, demand-led #SeedSystems are driving real adoption. @AGRA_Africa endorses this market-driven model to accelerate varietal turnover & farmer incomes.
Read👉: tinyurl.com/2cesoxen
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Beans. Knowledge. Results.
In Kaniama 🇨🇩, The PADCA-6P Initiative is training 800 farmers, testing 6 biofortified beans🫘 & boosting yields. This is being led by @BiovIntCIAT_eng @INERADRC.
Pure practical science, supported by @AfDB_Group.
Read more: tinyurl.com/2732hf7w
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Science for the people!
At #AustraliaDay, hosted by HE @jennydarin & @Austrade, @JcRubyogo flagged Rapid Cooking #Beans🫘 by @ACIARAustralia with @UWAresearch, cutting cooking time, fuel & boosting nutrition in East Africa. Da Rin saw it as an example of science improving lives.
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New study: Quality Declared Seed (QDS)🌱🫘 is profitable & vital for farmers in Tanzania—improving access to better seed & delivering strong returns. Yet <10% reaches formal markets. Scaling QDS needs stronger markets, partnerships & skills.
See more👉 tinyurl.com/25t9amgo
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Empowered women are transforming agrifood systems🌱🫘🥔🍚🌽.
From bold conversations to real commitments, CGIAR’s #IWD2026 celebration🥳 in Rwanda this week spotlighted women as leaders, innovators & drivers of resilience.
When women rise, food systems & communities thrive 💪
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March ends, but the impact continues. @CGIAR centers in #Rwanda celebrate women and their invaluable contributions to transforming agrifood systems, inspired by Hon. Minister @solangeuwituze.
Key takeaways:
📍 Use opportunities
📍 Embrace your strengths
📍 Earn your success
#IWD
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For PABRA, celebrating women doesn’t end in March. It’s a year-round commitment. From research to value addition, they power every step of the bean🫘 value chain.
Open this publication to see how women across countries are driving impact👇 #IYWF2026
🔗bit.ly/47nw3Cn
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