Pan-African Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) – Phase 2012-2014

Published on 18 July 2012

Research Areas

Agrobiodiversity, Crops

Countries

Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo Dem. Rep., Congo Rep., Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Timeline

Start Date: 1 January 2012 | End Date: 31 December 2014

Overview

PABRA’s ultimate goal is to improve food security, nutrition, health, income and livelihood of resource-poor smallholder families. These are the intermediate expected outcomes:

• Increased and gender equitable utilization of improved and marketable bean varieties, new crop management techniques and micro-nutrient rich bean based products
• Increased trade by men and women farmers in an equitable manner
• Increased evidence-based response to bean sector demands and influencing bean policy in a gender equitable manner.

Tags

Africa, Bean, food security, Gender Equity, Nutrition, pabra