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Sweetpotato is a low-input crop with significant potential for improving public health and nutrition and developing food security in sub-Saharan Africa. This chapter examines the nutritional contribution made by OFSP (orange-fleshed sweetpotato) in poor rural communities in Malawi, Ghana, Nigeria...


Abidin, P.E.Carey, E.E.[Improving the breeding, cultivation and use of sweetpotato in Africa]Improving the breeding, cultivation and use of sweetpotato in Africa

Malnutrition, particularly vitamin A deficiency, is a major public health problem in many developing countries. This study investigated whether priming or self-generation of goals, or whether attention to instrumental or experiential goals together with use of a reminder condition or not, promote...


Lagerkvist, C.J.Okello, J.J.Adekambi, S.Kwikiriza, N.Abidin, P.E.Carey, E.E.[Goal-setting and volitional behavioural change: Results from a school meals intervention with vitamin-A biofortified sweetpotato in Nigeria]Goal-setting and volitional behavioural change: Results from a school meals intervention with vitamin-A biofortified sweetpotato in Nigeria

A major objective of breeding at the Sweetpotato Support Platform for West Africa in Ghana, is the development of non-sweet cultivars suitable for use as staple foods, or in fried and other processed products. This priority was set during stakeholder consultations when establishing the program, a...


Carey, E.E.Swanckaert, J.Dery, E.K.Akansake, D.Saaka, J.Abidin, P.E.Adofo, K.Baafi, E.Muzhingi, T.David, M.Low, J.W.Gruneberg, W.J.[Developing and deploying non- and low-sweet sweetpotato cultivars for expanding markets.]Developing and deploying non- and low-sweet sweetpotato cultivars for expanding markets.

Sweet potato has traditionally been viewed as a “poor person’s crop” or “orphan crop,” and it has attracted limited attention compared to other staple crops. However, during the last decade, this perception has changed, and it is widely acknowledged that sweet potato has great potential to contri...


Mwanga, R.O.M.Andrade, M.I.Carey, E.E.Low, J.W.Yencho, G.C.Gruneberg, W.J.[Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas L.).]Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas L.).

Stathers, T.McEwan, M.Gibson, R.Mwanga, R.O.M.Carey, E.E.Namanda, S.Low, J.W.Ogero, K.Rajendran, S.Abidin, P.E.Malinga, J.Agili, S.Andrade, M.I.Mkumbira; J.[Everything you ever wanted to know about sweetpotato, Topic 5: Sweetpotato seed systems]Everything you ever wanted to know about sweetpotato, Topic 5: Sweetpotato seed systems

Stathers, T.Carey, E.E.Mwanga, R.O.M.Njoku, J.Tumwegamire, SilverMalinga, J.Andrade, M.I.[Everything you ever wanted to know about sweetpotato, Topic 3: Sweetpotato varietal selection and characteristics]Everything you ever wanted to know about sweetpotato, Topic 3: Sweetpotato varietal selection and characteristics

Stathers, T.Carey, E.E.Mwanga, R.O.M.Njoku, J.Malinga, J.Njoku; A.[Everything you ever wanted to know about sweetpotato, Topic 6: Sweetpotato production and management]Everything you ever wanted to know about sweetpotato, Topic 6: Sweetpotato production and management

To maximize the availability of pro-vitamin A carotenoids in sweet potato and to recommend the appropriate start of piecemeal harvesting practice, the main carotenoids in storage roots of 17 different sweet potato cultivars were surveyed using HPLC and spectrophotometry methods, and their variati...


K'Osambo, L.M.Carey, E.E.Misra, A.K.Wilkes, J.Hagenimana, V.[Influence of age, farming site, and boiling on pro-vitamin A content in sweet potato (Ipomea batatas (L.) Lam.) storage roots]Influence of age, farming site, and boiling on pro-vitamin A content in sweet potato (Ipomea batatas (L.) Lam.) storage roots
Gruneberg, W.J.Ma, D.Mwanga, R.O.M.Carey, E.E.Huamani, K.Díaz, F.Eyzaguirre, R.Guaf, E.Jusuf, M.Karuniawan, A.Tjintokohadi, K.Song, Y.S.Amil, S.R.Hossain, M.Rahaman, E.Attaluri, S.I.Some, K.Afaupe, S.O.Adofo, K.Lukonge, E.Karanja, L.Ndirigwe, J.Ssemakula, G.N.Agili, S.Randrianaivoarivony, J.M.Chiona, M.Chipungu, F.P.Laurie, S.M.Ricardo, J.Andrade, M.I.Rausch Fernandes, F.Mello, A.S.Khan, M.A.LaBonte, D.R.Yencho, G.C.[Advances in sweetpotato breeding from 1992 to 2012.]Advances in sweetpotato breeding from 1992 to 2012.
Sossah, F.L.Appiah, A.S.Oduro, V.Amoatey, H.M.Owusu, G.K.Oppong, A.Lamptey, J.N.L.Carey, E.E.Fuentes, S.[Incidence of sweet potato viruses in the coastal savannah agro-ecological zone of Ghana.]Incidence of sweet potato viruses in the coastal savannah agro-ecological zone of Ghana.

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