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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.

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.

Starting with six already released potato varieties, this project will identify the two or three most commercially viable and promote a seed system for these varieties to address the food needs of the burgeoning population.

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...

This project aims to increase farmer access to early-yielding, heat- and virus-resistant varieties of potato, to promote sustainable intensification of production and boost nutrition, incomes and food security throughout Haryana, India.

Potato has underexploited potential to contribute to food security and incomes among Kenyan smallholders. This project builds on the past work of the International Potato Center (CIP) to increase the current low levels of productivity. It focuses on building the skills of farmers and other stakeh...