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A step forward in turning ‘forgotten foods’ into ‘opportunity crops’

A step forward in turning ‘forgotten foods’ into ‘opportunity crops’

Interview with Lead author Maarten van Zonneveld

The prestigious […]

Timothy Cheng2024-04-30T08:33:58+00:00April 8, 2024|Categories: Eastern and Southern Africa, FRESH, Latest News, West and Central Africa - Coastal and Humid Regions, West and Central Africa - Dry Regions|Tags: Africa, genebank|

A giant leap forward for the conservation of vegetable biodiversity in Africa

A giant leap forward for the conservation of vegetable biodiversity in Africa – two new genebanks inaugurated in March 2024, in […]

Timothy Cheng2024-04-01T07:14:40+00:00April 1, 2024|Categories: 2024 FRESH archive, Eastern and Southern Africa, Latest News|

Nutritional and economic benefits of including traditional leafy vegetables in school feeding programs in Kenya

Nutritional and economic benefits of including traditional leafy vegetables in school feeding programs in Kenya – new report

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Timothy Cheng2024-03-29T05:01:16+00:00March 29, 2024|Categories: 2024 FRESH archive, Eastern and Southern Africa, Latest News|

Celebrating the amazing achievements of the Taiwan Africa Vegetable Initiative

Celebrating the amazing achievements of the Taiwan Africa Vegetable Initiative

The Taiwan Africa Vegetable Initiative (TAVI) end of project […]

Timothy Cheng2024-03-28T07:19:23+00:00March 28, 2024|Categories: 2024 FRESH archive, Eastern and Southern Africa, Latest News|Tags: TAVI|

A new report assesses vegetable and irrigation systems in Tigray, Ethiopia, before and after the 2020-2022 conflict

A new report assesses vegetable and irrigation systems in Tigray, Ethiopia, before and after the 2020-2022 conflict

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Angel Jeng2024-03-20T09:41:44+00:00March 15, 2024|Categories: Eastern and Southern Africa, Latest News|Tags: Assessment, Ethiopia, irrigation system|

Sowing ‘seeds of change’ in Kenya: impacts of the Greener Greens project

Sowing ‘seeds of change’ in Kenya: impacts of the Greener Greens project

Angel Jeng2024-06-27T00:41:16+00:00March 4, 2024|Categories: Eastern and Southern Africa, Latest News|Tags: Greener Greens, Kenya, seeds|

New amaranth varieties create impact at scale in Tanzania

New amaranth varieties create impact at scale in Tanzania

A recent impact study based on DNA analysis of […]

Angel Jeng2024-02-23T01:17:24+00:00February 22, 2024|Categories: 2024 FRESH archive, Eastern and Southern Africa, FEB2024, Latest News|Tags: amaranth, smallholder|

WorldVeg seed kits proven to have a lasting impact

WorldVeg seed kits proven to have a lasting impact

Between 2013 and 2022, WorldVeg distributed an amazing 457,172 […]

Angel Jeng2024-02-22T09:56:06+00:00February 22, 2024|Categories: 2024 FRESH archive, Eastern and Southern Africa, FEB2024, Latest News, West and Central Africa - Coastal and Humid Regions|Tags: seed kits, smallholder|

WorldVeg leads the way in Africa, collecting, conserving and using vegetable diversity

WorldVeg leads the way in Africa, collecting, conserving and using vegetable diversity

Reproduced with thanks from two articles […]

Angel Jeng2024-02-22T07:21:03+00:00February 22, 2024|Categories: 2024 FRESH archive, Eastern and Southern Africa, FEB2024, Latest News, Uncategorized|Tags: genebank, germplasm|

The future of African vegetable biodiversity ensured through a new genetic resources ‘rescue plan’

The future of African vegetable biodiversity ensured through a new genetic resources ‘rescue plan’

Representatives of plant […]

Angel Jeng2024-01-08T02:37:44+00:00January 8, 2024|Categories: Eastern and Southern Africa|Tags: Africa, biodiversity, Seed rescue, TAVI|

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