Aime Ndayisenga & Immaculate Akello Training farmer promoters isn’t just a knowledge transfer; it is a concrete way of ensuring job creation, hence reducing the rate of unemployment in Rwanda. Most of the people who receive this training have recourse to establishing small scale farming which efficiently caters for their …
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By Aime Ndayisenga & Immaculate Akello “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” says Ralph Waldo Emerson. It takes more than just time and confidence for one to become famous in any discipline of life. Some will easily draw their pathways towards …
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Most often, the process of the development and dissemination of new agricultural technologies is not documented. Some say, that if a new product is good, it should spread “by itself”. But the reality is that the surrounding policy environment heavily influences the ability to test new technologies and to disseminate …
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Orange fleshed sweet potato and lessons for a Code Red crop crisis Accelerated crop breeding is needed to tackle spreading plant disease and drought that threatens many African food staples Being a crop breeder in the modern world sometimes feels like being a fire fighter equipped with a very slow …
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Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), in partnership with Sugarcane Research Institute (SRI-Kibaha) and the Building Nutritious Food Baskets (BNFB) project are conducting a Training of Trainers (ToT) course designed to provide the participants with the skills and knowledge to train others on “Everything you ever wanted to know about sweetpotato. …
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In September 2016, Mecula and Metarica districts displayed orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) roots at the Niassa Province Nutrition Gala held in Lichinga. During the gala, the governor recommended that OFSP should be produced in all districts of Niassa. OFSP has been selected as one of the key components of fighting chronic …
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The International Potato Center (CIP) hosted a sweetpotato awareness week at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya from 13 – 17 February 2017. The aim was to raise awareness among ILRI staff and other campus users on the benefits of the Vitamin A rich Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato …
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With the recent global recognition of CIP’s work in biofortification through the award of World Food Prize has come questions about the evidence of the success that informed the award. This evidence will no doubt come from the CIP team and its partners who routinely monitor and evaluate sweetpotato projects …
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Septembers in Niassa are dry. Warm winds blowing over the Northern Mozambican province send billowing clouds of dust across the land. It is hard to imagine that anything could grow here. Yet the parched earth looks like it is just waiting for the first drops of rainwater to prove its …
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