A centre of excellence for crop biotechnology is set be established to develop and deploy disease-resistant seeds under a new ...

Rwanda launches BioCap project to build crop biotechnology capacity Five-year program targets cassava, potato, banana improvement $14 million centre to train scientists in advanced biotech techniques ...

Rwanda produces most of the food it needs, yet more than half of what is consumed is imported. This stark contradiction is seen in the recent published by the National Institute of Statistics of ...

When I became a farmer here in Rwanda, I started to grow sweet bananas. They were a natural and a staple crop for my country and its climate—and back in 2015, I had high hopes for where they would ...

A unique “coworking space” for farmers in drought-stricken Rwanda will soon offer local growers a sustainable way to produce crops. Agriculture accounts for a third of landlocked Rwanda’s GDP but ...

Like the rest of the world, Rwanda has been hit hard by inflation rises, with data indicating it is among the top ten countries worst affected by food price inflation. What started with the global ...

To help farmers and grain traders reduce the prevalence of aflatoxins in crops and grains in Rwanda, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), ...

Kigali: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has increased food assistance for refugees in all five camps across Rwanda by 43 percent to help them meet their basic needs following the ...