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A view of Muhazi pond, one of the artificial ponds that were created at the revamped Nyandungu Wetland Eco-Tourism Park in Kigali. File
Environment

2022: A look at 15 major climate finance flows in Rwanda

Wednesday, December 28, 2022
Digital tools deployed by IITA are helping to effectively monitor and manage BXW, the most devastating banana disease (Photo by IITA).
Featured

How digital tools help tackle ravaging banana disease

Sunday, November 27, 2022
Rwanda National Police's fire and rescue brigade officers rescue some people who were stranded at a flooded road in Kigali in February 2020.
Environment

COP27: Rwanda to engage partners in mobilising $6bn for climate finance

Friday, November 04, 2022
Workers sorting new cassava varieties that were multiplied at RAB station in Huye. Photo: Courtesy.
Agriculture

Scientists banking on GM crop varieties to lift cassava industry

Monday, October 17, 2022
Workers sort sweet potatoes at a greenhouse in Musanze District. The centre has become a solution to the farmers who struggled to get good seeds. / Sam Ngendahimana
Agriculture

Expert makes case for agric biotechnology

Monday, October 17, 2022
Agriculture technicians work on multiplication of a new variety of Irish potato seedlings in Musanze District. Agri experts are making a case for adopting agricultural biotechnology. According to the experts, genetically modified crops produced through the use of biotechnology have much to offer in line with addressing food insecurity and the increasing production costs. Photo: Sam Ngendahimana.

How agricultural biotechnology could boost food security

Friday, July 22, 2022
Farmers who are counting losses due to late blight disease welcome the plan to use agricultural biotechnology in developing a resistant crop variety. Photo: Sam Ngendahimana.

Farmers upbeat about new potato variety

Monday, July 18, 2022
The New Times

EDITORIAL: Need for increased research into agricultural biotechnology

Wednesday, June 29, 2022
The New Times

How is Rwanda faring in agricultural bio-technology?

Monday, June 27, 2022
Farmer Evariste Mutibagirana and his wife harvest coffee in their plantation in Karenge Sector in Rwamagana District. Photo: Sam Ngendahimana.

Rwanda banks on new coffee variety for sector growth

Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Technicians assemble an electric motobike in Kigali on June 10, 2021. / Photo: Dan Nsengiyumva.
Business

Inside Rwanda’s $5 million climate action initiative

Tuesday, March 08, 2022
Farmers try to salvage some of their rice produce that had been washed away by floods in Nyagatare District in 2020. Rwanda launched the National Agriculture Insurance Scheme in April 2019. Photo: File.
Rwanda

Farmers call for review of crop insurance scheme

Thursday, March 03, 2022