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Tanzania can reduce vitamin A deficiencies by promoting including low birth weight, stunting, being underweight, wasting, vitamin A deficiency (VAD), iodine deficiency disorders, and anemia. Addressing malnutrition problems results in significant economic and social benefits as it reduces morbidity and mortality leading to resource savings in healthcare, improved education outcomes, …
Read More »The 2017 SPHI Exhibition Booths
SPHI 2017 Exhibition Booths We had such great fun at the SPHI 2017 exhibition session at the Milimani Mall in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on Sunday the 24th of September. We all got to learn more about orange-fleshed sweetpotato and got to interact with the private sector folks based in …
Read More »Redefining hope for the future of the less fortune
It is a shock that at present, we still have families who hardly find it possible to have even one meal in a day. Claudine Mukandoli, a mother of three children is one of those. Living in Musanze District, she explained how difficult it has been for her to put …
Read More »Dr. Akinwumi Adesina of Nigeria awarded the World Food Prize 2017
It is hard to believe that one year has gone by since the ceremony awarding the 2016 World Food Prize to three CIP sweetpotato scientists, Jan Low, Maria Andrade, and Robert Mwanga and Howdy Bouis of HarvestPlus. On the 19th of October, the mantle passed to the 2017 World Food …
Read More »Call for applications: Managing food safety and quality in small-scale food processing for RTB value chains in Sub-Saharan Africa
Food safety concerns are a growing focus in Africa, as elsewhere in the world. Food borne illnesses are a preventable and under-reported public health problem. These illnesses are a burden on public health and contribute significantly to the cost of health care. They also present a major challenge to certain groups of …
Read More »Ndayisaba smiles away from selling Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato roots in Musanze Market
On August 31, International Potato Center, through the Rwanda Orange-fleshed sweetpotato project funded by the USAID, carried out a one-week market linkage outreach in Musanze, where Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato (OFSP) farmers were linked to potential buyers. Over 1,500 Kg of rich Vitamin A roots were sold at a selling point where …
Read More »Farmers in northern Rwanda launch the agricultural season with sweetpotato farming
It is planting season again! Rainfall is here and farmers across Rwanda are on their toes to catch up with the time to plant. It is the perfect time for planting Sweetpotato. As is the mandate, International Potato Center (CIP) and its implementing partners kick off this year’s agricultural …
Read More »Behold sweetpotatoes, the new money-maker in the village
Sweet potato revolution Friday October 20 2017 In Summary Consolata Bryant, a Kenyan living in the US, sets up a sweet potato factory processing produce from up to 3,000 farmers. With an electric or solar storage powered system, a farmer can preserve tubers for four months.
Read More »BBC Good Food – The health benefits of sweetpotato
The health benefits of sweet potato The sweet potato is a starchy, sweet-tasting root vegetable. They have a thin, brown skin on the outside with coloured flesh inside – most commonly orange in colour, but other varieties are white, purple or yellow. You can eat sweet potatoes whole or peeled, …
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