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MALAWIAN ENTREPRENEUR CREATES NUTRITIOUS PRODUCTS AND A NEW MARKET FOR FARMERS
The Tehilah Bakery and Value Addition Centre, located 20 kilometers from Malawi’s second largest city, Blantyre, focuses on commercializing nutritious and healthy foods using locally grown crops.
SMALL INVESTMENT, BIG RESULTS!
How village savings and loans groups, orange fleshed sweetpotato and the Triple-S innovation are empowering women in Northern Ghana. ‘For me, growing sweetpotato is much easier than other crops. I use few inputs and have little maintenance and I still get a good yield’ said Ernestine Gbang, a women’s group leader and successful sweetpotato farmer …
THE HUMBLE SWEET POTATO CAN HELP POWER AFRICA IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
The humble sweet potato can help power Africa in the face of climate change Forest fires during a record-breaking warm winter in Europe, Arctic cold in the US and melting glaciers are clear signals that climate change is impacting all of us but it is in Africa where such extreme weather is having the most …
HARNESSING SWEETPOTATO GENOMICS TO IMPROVE BREEDING AND FARMERS’ LIVES
Harnessing Sweetpotato Genomics to Improve Breeding and Farmers’ Lives Scientists from the International Potato Center ( CIP) are part of an exciting venture that is working to develop a set of “next-generation” tools for African sweetpotato breeders. Those tools will help breeders develop more resilient, nutritious and high-yielding sweetpotato varieties more quickly, in order to …
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