🌱🇹🇿 PROSSIVA BBTD 🌿🍌 Today #Tanzania stakeholders meet in Moshi to plan joint strategies to strengthen seed systems for #Banana & coordinate this work with efforts to tackle the banana bunchy top disease epidemic 👍🏼These are participants one-word expections 1️⃣👍🏼 #PROSSIVA

Winning partnerships are intentional, targeted and sustained. International Potato Center & IITA join forces to raise the bar for #RTBs (#banana #plantain #Cassava #potato #sweetpotato & #yam) towards resilient #FoodSystems. #Prossiva is part of this exciting agenda.

Meet the 🌎 #banana legend. Swennen Rony always says RTB = Rony Talking Bananas 😃. ..with a passion thats second to none !

✅Get ready for the inaugural #CGIARScienceWeek, 1–5 July 2024, in Nairobi, Kenya! Experience the future of agricultural research through dynamic expositions, panel discussions, and CGIAR tours. 🔗on.cgiar.org/49e0KZs #OneCGIAR #WithScienceWeCan

Welcome on board Dr. Esiobu! We look forward to working with you to upscale quality #seed particularly for 🇳🇬's top staple crops - #yam & #cassava. IITA PROSSIVA IITA GoSeed

Excellent recognition of IITA 's research efforts towards a food secure continent. Way to go #Zambia !

#CIP's Rosemary Gatimu produces disease free #sweetpotato vines at #KEPHIS as starter stocks for high quality #seed production. In #Prossiva we explore practical solutions to challenges with tissue culture lab contamination & long turnarround time for virus elimination.

Unwavering commitment from Dr. M. L. Attanda National Horticultural Research Institute (NIHORT) ED and Team joining forces with IITA on #banana/#plantain R&D in #Nigeria. #WithScienceWeCan

𝟯. The most direct investment we can make in a sustainable future for the whole planet 🌟 #InvestInRuralPeople

Thank you DG Simeon Ehui for your excellent leadership! We remain committed to developing and piloting #innovations to revolutionize VPC #SeedSystems for the benefit of #SmallHolderFarmers. #PROSSIVA IITA GoSeed

🌿Quality Seed Pays 💰 Cassava viruses severely impact yields in #Tanzania 🇹🇿 & are propagated when farmers recycle seed. But, a new study by IITA's Juma Yabeja has demonstrated that planting Certified Seed can increase yields by more than 80% #PROSSIVA t.ly/bd0m6

#PROSSIVA building a community of entrepreneurs for quality #yam seed production in #Ghana. Francis and Gift are convinced and ask for more seeds after seeing the output of high quality 'finger size' minitubers just after 3 months of planting in Nkuranza South.

✨️#PROSSIVA 🇬🇭 transforming #yam seed sector✨️ Team CSIR-Crops Research Institute showing off high quality #EarlyGenerationSeed production strategies for market preferred varieties and research on good agronomic practices for decentralized #CertifiedSeed production.

It’s International Day of Rural Women today!!! 🥳🎊👩‍🌾👩‍🌾 Retweet and like if you stand with rural women who feed the world! 🌾 . #InternationalDayOfRuralWomen #RuralWomen #GoodFoodForAll #WomenInAg #WomenFeedTheWorld #EmpowerRuralWomen

🌟#PROSSIVA capacitating seed actors 🌟 Hands-on training of #TARI researchers & PlantVillage partners in #Tanzania on #banana macropropagation for quality seed production. Looking forward to exciting outcomes for decentralized seed production !

The team driving Crop Improvement research IITA .

Excellent meeting with insightful discussions towards improving safe germplasm exchange - critical for crop improvement efforts. Thanks Lava Kumar for organizing !

Capacitating #seed actors with relevant #technologies is an important step towards building efficient seed systems. Always exciting to lead a training and pass-on tips and tricks for better #productivity of technologies. PROSSIVA Mpoki Shimwela (Seed Man )‏Francis Okot

Proud to see this feedback on knowledge gained being translated to action. Way to go NIHORT Nigeria !!

🌱Proud to share this impressive #PROSSIVA output. We describe a simple and efficient technology for high quality seed yam (Dioscorea) production. hdl.handle.net/10568/169835