B-Bovid champions Kofi Annan sweet potato initiative in W/Region

  B-Bovid champions Kofi Annan sweet potato initiative in W/Region

On August 15 2016, Mrs. Nane Lagergren and her husband, Kofi Annan spent a day learning about and advocating for the Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative (SPHI) in Ghana’s Volta Region.   The visit, organized by CIP’s Ghana office, included stops at a bakery which produces Golden Bread from vitamin-A-rich …

On May 24 to 27, 2016, sweetpotato breeders from CIP, CSIR-Crops Research Institute (CSIR-CRI) and CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute in Ghana participated in a 3 day workshop at CSIR-CRI in Kumasi to learn how to use sweetpotatobase (SPbase).

Their report on the first electrical enhancement of sweet potatoes, a dietary staple since prehistoric times, was part of the 244 th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society.