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Some of our 2018 project highlights. Happy Holidays
Read More »2018 Highlights under the Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative
Champion Farmer Household contributes to the scaling up use of the Triple S technology
‘Next season I will fill my farm, and my father’s farm, with sweetpotato’ says Bezabih Hamamo, a champion Triple S (Storing in Sand and Sprouting) farmer in the Jara Dado Kebele in Hawassa Zuria. Hawassa Zuria is in southern Ethiopia, approximately 40 km from Hawassa town, and it is in …
Read More »AFRICA’S ORANGE-FLESHED SWEETPOTATO EVANGELIST
WATCH NOW KLIK HERE :http://hd.tupmovie.com Dr. Maria Andrade, senior sweetpotato breeder for Southern Africa and Asia at the International Potato Center, has over 30 years’ experience in technology transfer & breeding systems. Through her work with the resilient and nutritious orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP), she is on course to save millions …
Read More »EU HEADS OF COMMITTEE VISIT: TOWARDS NUTRITION SENSITIVE AGRICULTURE IN MOZAMBIQUE
The International Potato Center (CIP) together with the Food and Agriculture Organisation in Mozambique hosted a delegation of Heads of Cooperation (HoC) of the European Union interested to learn about aspects and approaches to promoting nutrition-sensitive agriculture. CIP showcased nutrition activities under the Viable Sweetpotato Technologies for Africa (VISTA) project …
Read More »REVISED TRAINING OF TRAINERS MANUAL ON SWEETPOTATO AVAILABLE
An updated version of the popular Training of Trainers (ToT) manual on Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Sweetpotato is now available. The manual, designed to potentially serve a wide variety of audiences (nutritionists and agronomists, policymakers, extension workers, community development workers, leaders of farmer organizations, farmers, is a much sought-after training …
Read More »18th Triennial Symposium of the International Society for Tropical Root Crops meeting
Sweetpotato was well represented at the 18th Triennial Symposium of the International Society for Tropical Root Crops meeting held at CIAT in Cali, Colombia, the 22nd through 25th October 2018. Over 165 participants from 30 countries made 70 oral presentations and presented 170 scientific posters. Participants got an opportunity to …
Read More »2018 World Food Prize recognises advances in nutrition
“One in three people on this planet are denied a say in shaping their destiny, because they are malnourished,” said Lawrence Haddad in his acceptance speech of the prestigious 2018 World Food Prize. Dr. Lawrence Haddad and physician Dr. David Nabarro were honored with the prestigious 2018 World Food Prize. …
Read More »Fighting malnutrition in Rwanda with orange-fleshed sweetpotatoes
Fighting malnutrition in Rwanda with orange sweet potatoes Luisa Garcia was a 2018 African Great Lakes Reporting Fellow with the International Women’s Media Foundation . As Dr. Kirimi Sindi drove past the lush, green, rolling hills of Rwanda, he called the region “the country of a thousand hills.”
Read More »ORANGE-FLESHED SWEETPOTATO CHAMPION TAKES GOSPEL TO CHURCH
On a slow Saturday morning, most would want to sleep away the exhaustion of the week but the ground is set for Christ is the Answer Ministries(CITAM) family sports day in Buruburu, Nairobi Kenya. For George Aristotle, this presented an opportunity to spread the Orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) gospel to his …
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