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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 ...

This project takes a novel approach to enhancing food security and incomes by focusing on employment opportunities. Through learning about growing, multiplying and processing orange-fleshed sweetpotato, young people in northern Mozambique will acquire the knowledge and skills to build sustainable...

Potato productivity in Karnataka is below the average in India, yet demand is likely to rise. A new center of research excellence will enable the state to benefit fully from potato and sweetpotato intensification.

Potatoes and sweetpotatoes are relatively climate-hardy and rapidly-growing crops. Crop breeders are using next-generation technologies to develop climate-smart varieties that mature quickly, resist many pests and diseases, and tolerate heat, drought or saline to provide more nutritious food and ...

This project aims to build sustainable livelihoods among 3,000 poor and rural households in southern Malawi by boosting sweetpotato production, strengthening value chains, and creating better market access.

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...

The International Potato Center (CIP) has reached 6.5 million households with biofortified orange-fleshed sweetpotato to improve vitamin A intake. Potato, a staple food in many developing countries, is a good source of zinc, iron, potassium, and vitamin C. Evidence shows that an integrated seed d...

Introduction of biofortified, orangefleshed sweetpotato and new varieties of quinoa will improve child and adult nutrition, boost food security, and generate sustainable incomes in Jharkhand, India.