Faith Njunge April 25, 2018 News 0

Visiting scientist develops sweet potato-enriched bread You won’t find sweet potatoes growing in South Dakota fields, but sweet potato-fortified bread developed at South Dakota State University might help fight Vitamin A deficiency in Africa. Visiting scientist Daniel Mbogo of the International Potato Center in Kenya is working with assistant professor …

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Faith Njunge April 19, 2018 News 0

Championing vitamin A-rich orange-fleshed sweetpotato in Nigeria Nigeria, together with partners such as the Building Nutritious Food Baskets Project (BNFB), is using innovative approaches to tackle hidden hunger. Gift Buduzhi Oguzor, a community nutritionist, is leading one such effort, championing efforts to scale up nutritious, vitamin A rich orange-fleshed sweetpotato …

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Faith Njunge April 16, 2018 News 0

3rd Edition of the Training-of-Trainers’ course: “Everything-you-need-to-know-about-Sweetpotato” Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in partnership with CSIR-Crops Research Institute (CRI) and the International Potato Center (CIP) is offering a 10-day Training-of-Trainers course designed to provide participants with the skills and knowledge to train others; from 16th – 27th …

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Faith Njunge March 29, 2018 News 0

Borlaug Program Pairs U.S., African Sweet Potato Researchers | USDA Foreign Agricultural Service Thanks to USDA’s Borlaug Fellowship Program, an African researcher is in the United States acquiring knowledge that will help protect farmers’ livelihoods and improve food security on his home continent. Kwame Ogero, a research associate at the …

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Faith Njunge March 29, 2018 News 1

ORANGE: Sweet potato innovation platform (SIP) review new healthy gold benefit for Ghana Orange Fleshed Sweet Potatoes (OFSP) is gaining popularity in the world market because of its nutritional values, and it is said to have a growing demand of about 10% per year.

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Faith Njunge March 29, 2018 News 1

Lilongwe-based agro-dealer Fannie Gondwe recently graduated from the Graça Machel Trust – Women Creating Worth Program and was also among the four finalists who pitched their businesses to the trust and emerged as the overall winner taking home $500. “My business pitch was on the multiplication of Orange-fleshed sweetpotato vines …

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Faith Njunge March 27, 2018 News 1

It is with great sadness to announce that one of the great OFSP champions, Irene de Souza is no more, having passed away after a brief illness at 66 years of age.  No one in the OFSP value addition community in Mozambique saw this coming. CIP Mozambique first interacted with …

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Faith Njunge March 26, 2018 News 0

The sustainable production of Early Generation Seed (which includes pre-basic/foundation seed and basic seed) is one bottleneck to increasing the availability of new varieties for farmers. Under which conditions is it profitable to produce sweetpotato EGS, and who is best placed to do it? Srini Rajendran and Margaret McEwan (International …

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Faith Njunge March 22, 2018 News 0

  The second edition in this blog series for SeedSystem.org by scientists from the International Potato Center (CIP) and the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) explores effective marketing strategies for sweetpotato seed. The sustainable production of Early Generation Seed (which includes pre-basic/foundation seed and basic seed) is one …

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