Christine Bukania, Author at Sweetpotato Knowledge Portal

Dr. Thomas van Mourik is the new manager of the Healthy Gold for Ghana Project

Christine Bukania August 4, 2017 News 6

Dr. Thomas van Mourik has joined the International Potato Center (CIP) as Country Manager for Ghana and Project Manager for the Healthy Gold for Ghana project. The project is working to improve vitamin A intake in rural and urban households utilizing OFSP. Tom, a Dutch national, holds a PhD in …

Mihiretu Cherinet completes Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship Program

Christine Bukania July 26, 2017 News 0

Tell us something about yourself I hold a BSc in Dry Land Crop and Horticultural Science from Mekkele University, Ethiopia and a MSc. in Horticulture from Pretoria University, Pretoria, South Africa. After my MSc, I participated in an internship in modern greenhouse crop production at Green Circle Grower in U.S.A, …

Growing sweetpotatoes in the desert: what this could mean for food security in sub-Saharan Africa?

Christine Bukania July 24, 2017 News 0

For many of us, deserts represent dry wastelands where almost nothing can take root, let alone grow and flourish. But for the last three years, Dr. Hari Krishna has been growing sweetpotato in the desert in Abu Dhabi, with considerable success. Dr. Krishna is a development agronomist and postharvest technologist …

Announcing the 8th Annual Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative Technical Meeting

Christine Bukania July 12, 2017 News 0

The 8th Annual Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative (SPHI) Meeting will be held from 24th through 27th September 2017 at the Ramada Resort in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, followed by a field trip to the Morogoro area 27-29th September. The theme of this year’s meeting is Building Resilient Food Systems with …

WHAT’S IN A NAME Contest… Earn $300 for your great idea…

Christine Bukania July 12, 2017 News 1

Frankly, everything… As part of its population development program, CIP in West Africa has been focused on developing sweetpotato varieties with little to no sugar. It goes without saying that consumers associated sweetpotato as a product that is sugary. In many countries, this is the reason cited by men saying …

The 7th Sweetpotato Seed Systems Community of Practice Consultation takes place in Uganda

Christine Bukania June 28, 2017 News 0

The 7th Sweetpotato Seed Systems Community of Practice Consultation was held from 13th to 14th June in Colline Hotel, Mukono Uganda. The theme of the meeting was Towards Upscaling Sweetpotato Seed Production and Delivery of Quality Planting Material in Sub-Saharan Africa. The meeting was attended by 62 participants from 11 …

A new video teaches farmers how to make and store sweetpotato silage for their dairy animals

Christine Bukania June 15, 2017 News 1

9 June 2017, Nairobi – The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has launched an instructional video that teaches dairy farmers how to make sweetpotato vine silage. The video titled ‘Sweetpotato Vine Silage: An instructional video for dairy farmers’ was developed by the Mazingira Centre —an environmental research and education facility—based …

Lessons from orange sweetpotato saturation and thought leader experiments for promoting adoption in Uganda

Christine Bukania June 13, 2017 News 0

13 June 2017 – Dr. Dan Gilligan (IFPRI) held a webinar to present a study on lessons from orange sweetpotato saturation and thought leader experiments for promoting adoption in Uganda. The presentation was part of the SPHI Sweetpotato Seed Systems Community of Practice that was held from 13th to 14th June, …

HarvestPlus Chief Executive Officer pays courtesy visit to International Potato Center, Nairobi

Christine Bukania June 7, 2017 News 0

Nairobi, 31 May 2017 – Beverley (Bev) Postma, the Chief Executive Officer of HarvestPlus, paid a courtesy call to the International Potato Center (CIP) in Nairobi, where she met with senior scientists from the potato and sweetpotato research and development programs. During her visit, Bev shared her plans into the …