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...
International Potato Center
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[Gender-sensitive emergency responses with potato and sweetpotato, Ethiopia. Rebuilding food security after drought. Project profile.]
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Gender-sensitive emergency responses with potato and sweetpotato, Ethiopia. Rebuilding food security after drought. Project profile.
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...
International Potato Center
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[Biofortified potatoes for better nutrition, East Africa. Project profile.]
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Biofortified potatoes for better nutrition, East Africa. Project profile.
The Seeds of change project supports the large-scale adoption of climatesmart potato technologies and practices in Ethiopia, strengthening farmer access to improved varieties.
The food security of Andean small-scale potato farmers is dependent on the quality of their planting materials. Potatoes are susceptible to pathogen and pest accumulation in seed tubers over successive cycles of vegetative propagation, leading to seed degeneration and falling yields. This project...