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The cultivation and consumption of sweetpotato can improve the diets and boost incomes of vulnerable families in Mozambique. To encourage more smallholders to grow sweetpotato, the project provided high quality planting material and offered training in growing, harvesting and storage methods. It ...

Mozambique suffers from floods and droughts that can decimate crops but sweetpotato offers reliable yields under a range of adverse environmental conditions. This project builds on CIP’s work to increase production and consumption of sweetpotato in selected areas. It focuses on distributing disea...

Sweetpotato is a nutritious and resilient crop. This project builds on earlier work by the International Potato Center (CIP) to tackle the bottlenecks in sweetpotato consumption and delivery to release its economic and nutritional potential in rural Africa and improve nutrition. SASHA II focuses ...

Virus screening and elimination are necessary steps to prevent the spread of diseases when moving plant material from place to place. However, these measures can cause long delays in the release of new varieties. This project seeks to develop improved methods for disease detection, as well as phy...

Sweetpotato, particularly orange-fleshed varieties, has under-exploited potential to improve nutrition and help build resilience to climate change among poor farming families across India. This project, which aims to improve food security, nutrition, and livelihoods in Odisha state, was first imp...

Uso efectivo del agua en el cultivo de papa en zonas aridas para mejorar el manejo del riego mediante el monitoreo del estatus hidrico para enfrentar al cambio climatico.

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...

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...