Sweetpotato yield is adversely affected by poor soil fertility in Mozambique where access to inorganic fertilisers is lacking. The objective of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of intercropping sweetpotato with groundnut and soybean at various phosphorus (P) fertilisation levels on the...
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.
International Potato Center
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[Sweetpotato bread for better nutrition—South Africa. Tackling malnutrition and driving business growth. Project profile.]
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Sweetpotato bread for better nutrition—South Africa. Tackling malnutrition and driving business growth. Project profile.
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 ...
OFSP investment guide aims to unpack the investment opportunities in the OFSP value chain and offer a decision tool for determining where the key opportunities are and the activities for transforming them, including details on the human, financial and physical resources required. This guide is ta...
This flyer outlines the findings of the Rwanda Sweetpotato Super Foods Project, which sought to build an effective public-private sector partnership, and to investigate whether sweetpotato processed products are profitable and acceptable to urban consumers. The project was implemented in four di...
Low, J.W.
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Bocher, T.
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Sindi, K.
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[Rwanda Sweetpotato Super Foods Market Chains that work for women and for the poor.]
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Rwanda Sweetpotato Super Foods Market Chains that work for women and for the poor.
This flyer describes the objectives, activities, and progress made in implementing a three-year project that targets informal and formal orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) markets in Ghana, Nigeria and Burkina Faso between June 2014 and July 2015. The project is working towards four major outcomes...
Abidin, E.
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Some, K.
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Trucker, J.
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Kiger, B.
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Acheremu, K.
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Amankwaah, V.A.
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Amagloh, F.
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Amoaful, E.F.
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Njoku, J.
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[Jumpstarting Orange- Fleshed Sweetpotato in West Africa through Diversified Markets]
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Jumpstarting Orange- Fleshed Sweetpotato in West Africa through Diversified Markets
This flyer describes the objectives, approach and achievements of ongoing research to develop innovative business models to promote and commercialize sweetpotato silage in Uganda (June 2014 - July 2015). This is expected to transform production and utilization of sweetpotato vines and roots to at...
Kyalo, G.
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Kukuyu, B.
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Mayanja, S.
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[Nutritious and affordable sweetpotato based silage: The feed solution for small-scale pig farmers]
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Nutritious and affordable sweetpotato based silage: The feed solution for small-scale pig farmers
This flyer outlines the progress made towards achieving the objectives of the SUSTAIN project in Mozambique from June 2014 to July 2015. SUSTAIN is a 5-year partnership (2013-2018), coordinated by CIP and financed by the UK Department for International Development, to scale up the nutrition benef...
Remington, T.
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[Scaling Up Sweetpotato Through Agriculture and Nutrition in Malawi (SUSTAIN)]
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Scaling Up Sweetpotato Through Agriculture and Nutrition in Malawi (SUSTAIN)
This flyer is a brief of the ‘Scaling out sweetpotato and potato-led interventions to improve nutrition and food security in Tigray and SNNPR’ project, which is being implemented in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR) and the Tigray region in the north of Ethiopia. At...
Jogo, Wellington
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Teshome, F.
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[Scaling out sweetpotato and potato-led interventions to improve nutrition and food security in Tigray and SNNPR, Ethiopia]
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Scaling out sweetpotato and potato-led interventions to improve nutrition and food security in Tigray and SNNPR, Ethiopia
Sweetpotato for health and wealth in Nigeria and Jumpstarting OFSP in West Africa for diversified markets are two projects that focus on development of the value chain for health and wealth of the rural households in Nigeria, working in Osun and Kwara states. Out of search for OFSP demand at the ...
Phorbee, O.
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Ayoola, B.
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Njoku, J.
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Adesanmi, A.
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[Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato on the home grownschool feeding menu in Nigeria]
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Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato on the home grownschool feeding menu in Nigeria