The Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT has been operating in Tanzania since the mid-1980s, hosted by the Tanzania Agriculture Research Institute (TARI) under the Ministry of Agriculture at the Selian station outside of Arusha. To-date, our activities in Tanzania have principally aligned around ​​common bean breeding, seed systems, forages, soil, value chains and digital phenotyping. We are also doing significant work in building resilience to climate change. The Alliance works with local, national and multinational partners across Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and Africa, and with the public and private sectors. The Alliance is part of CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future, dedicated to reducing poverty, enhancing food and nutrition security, and improving natural resources and ecosystem services. A major goal of our work through the Tanzania office is around the production of novel climate-resilient varieties of beans. The Bean Programme is one of our notable achievements in Tanzania. The common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) plays a key role in the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Tanzania as a food and nutrition security crop and as a source of income. It is the leading leguminous crop, accounting for 78% of cultivated legumes, with close to 6 million households from rural areas depending on beans for daily subsistence.
NEW VACANCY AT ALLIANCE OF BIOVERSITY AND CIAT, JULY 2024
The organization is inviting applications from suitable candidates to fill a new position. READ FULL DETAILS THROUGH THE PDF DOCUMENT BELOW:
