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This project investigates the potential for introducing sweetpotato-enriched bread to South Africa. Beyond the benefits for family nutrition, it seeks to support farmers by increasing demand for valueadded sweetpotato products.

This Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation project aims to modernize Africa’s current systems for sweetpotato breeding and early generation seed production. The resulting improved varieties and their rapid dissemination and adoption will provide a strong foundation for better nutrition and diversified ...

Wild relatives of staple crops often have useful traits that can be bred into the more productive varieties to sustain yields when the plants are subject to challenging growing conditions. This project aims to improve farmers’ climate resilience by identifying useful genes in wild relatives of po...

Viroma de la papa en el Peru y fortalecimiento de las capacidades de los socios nacionales en el diagnóstico de patógenos con técnicas de última generación para enfrentar al riesgo de enfermedades emergentes por el calentamiento global.

Potato and sweetpotato are ideal food security crops, producing good harvests even under challenging growing conditions. This project directly provided around 20,000 Ethiopian farm households in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s (SNNP) region with quality planting materials and tra...

In addition to providing a valuable source of energy, orange-fleshed sweetpotato is rich in vitamin A. It is an ideal staple to grow in densely populated and drought-prone countries, like Ethiopia. This project aims to improve food security and nutrition among smallholders and the urban poor thro...

Potatoes with high levels of iron, zinc, and vitamin C hold great promise for boosting nutrition and food security throughout East Africa. This project builds on 15 years of CIP research to introduce improved varieties of biofortified potatoes to Ethiopia and Rwanda, along with a package of suppo...

Roots and tubers have great potential to support food security and resilient livelihoods among the poorest and most vulnerable people around the globe. FoodSTART, which promotes innovations for enhanced production and marketing of these underexploited crops, has completed a second phase in Asia.

Roots and tubers have great potential to support food security and resilient livelihoods among the poorest and most vulnerable people around the globe. The FoodSTART program, which promotes production and marketing of these underexploited crops, has already proven highly successful in Asia, and t...