Case Study

Transforming lives: biofortified beans reach 22.14 million people in Africa

author(s)

Munthali, Justice

themes
  • Crops for nutrition and health
  • Climate action
  • Digital inclusion
regions
  • Botswana
  • Burundi
  • Cameroon
  • Central African Republic
  • Congo, the Democratic Republic of the
  • Ethiopia
  • Ghana
  • Kenya
  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Mauritius
  • Mozambique
  • Rwanda
  • Eswatini
  • Tanzania, United Republic
  • Uganda
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe
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full citation

Munthali, J.; Rubyogo, J.C. (2024) Transforming lives: biofortified beans reach 22.14 million people in Africa. Rome (Italy): Bioversity International; Cali (Colombia): CIAT 4 p.

Nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions were mainstreamed through the Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance’s (PABRA) bean corridors approach between 2017 and 2023. These interventions have increased the number of women and men accessing and consuming biofortified high-iron beans (HIBs) and value-added bean products in Central, East, and Southern Africa from 720,000 to 22,14 million people. The continued adoption of HIBs and value-added bean products across 18 PABRA countries is attributed to complimentary projects that are promoting HIB release and mainstreaming through community outreach, school feeding programs, and value-addition and commercialization interventions.