CIAT Bean Program Leader & PABRA Director Jobs in Nairobi Kenya

CIAT Bean Program Leader & PABRA Director Jobs in Nairobi Kenya

The International Center for Tropical Agriculture works to increase prosperity and
improve human nutrition in the tropics through research based solutions in agriculture and environment.

CIAT is a member of the CGIAR Consortium a global partnership that unites organizations engaged in research for a food secure future.

Headquartered near Cali, Colombia, CIAT has
regional offices in Vietnam (Asia) and Kenya (Africa), with staff posted in other countries as well.

To meet growing demands for research-for-development solutions at a greater scale and within a period that is commensurate with rapidly changing global challenges, The International Center for Tropical
Agriculture (CIAT) and Bioversity International (Bioversity) are establishing an Alliance.

Bioversity is a global research-for-development organization whose vision is that agricultural biodiversity nourishes
people and sustains the planet.

Bioversity delivers scientific evidence, management practices and policy
options to use and safeguard agricultural and tree biodiversity to attain sustainable global food and nutrition security.

Both organizations are members of the CGIAR System Organization.

The Pan Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) is a network focused on delivering high impact in bean research-for-development.

It includes over 650 partners across 31 countries in Africa, the diversity of
these partners and projects are a core strength to achieving impact.

As a result of PABRA’s interventions,
more farming families have access to improved and marketable bean varieties, new crop management techniques, micronutrient rich bean-based products, niche market varieties and products, and bean related skills and knowledge that help to increase incomes and boost food and nutrition security.

The Position

Beans provide a highly nutritious food, containing protein, fiber, complex carbohydrates, vitamins, and micronutrients; about 400 million people in the tropics eat beans as part of their daily diet. Beans also
provide income for millions of people, particularly in Africa and Latin America.

Farmers struggle to satisfy consumer demand, producing around 12 million tons of common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) every year
worldwide.

With our partners, CIAT develops improved beans that show resilience under harsh growing conditions,which are worsening as a result of climate change impacts. Decades of CIAT research on bean have led to massive uptake of improved varieties, with significant impacts on food security in major bean-producing
countries. CIAT preserves the world’s largest and most diverse collection of beans.

Most of the germplasm originates in the Neotropics where beans where domesticated thousands of years ago.

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