Between 29th July 2016 and 17th August 2016, Cecilia Wanjuu, Lucy Njoroge and Penina Gitau traversed 19 Tuskys stores in Nairobi, Kiambu, Kajiado, Kakamega, Kisumu – a total of five counties – in Kenya. Their mission – consumer profiling for orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) in Kenya. The three enumerators set out to (i) use demographics to establish OFSP …
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1:00 pm on Thursday 23rd June 2016 at Tibung primary school saw traditional leaders of Tibung, the Kumbungu District coordinating director and his deputy, staff and pupils of Tibung and Yipelgu primary schools, representative from Ghana Education Service, Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), Partnership for Child (PCD) and Association of …
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On 11 October 2016, the APA Council, led by outgoing president, Dr. Endale Gebre, announced that Rwanda would host the next Triennial African Potato Association Conference. APA members voted in new council members: Dr. Francis Amagloh for West Africa, Dr. Felistus Chipungu for Southern Africa, and Dr. Julius Okello …
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The training-of-trainers course on “Everything You Need to Know about Sweet Potato” organised by the Department of Food Science and Technology of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) was held from 1st to 12th February, 2016 in Kumasi. The training was organised in conjunction with International Potato Center …
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The 7th Annual Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative (SPHI took place from 7-8 October 2016 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The theme of this year’s meeting was ‘Celebrating the 2016 World Food Prize’. This theme honored four scientists – Dr. Howarth Bouis of HarvestPlus, and Drs. Jan Low, Maria Andrade and …
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Dr. Maria Andrade was on Tuesday, 28 June announced as one of the four 2016 World Food Prize Laureates during a ceremony at the U.S. State Department. In this audio slideshow, Andrade shares her passion for sweetpotato breeding, and what her achievements mean to her. Andrade, born in 1958 in …
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National Tv covering OFSP mass event at Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso, promotional day, stakeholders invited to network to jumpstart OFSP value chain, market, processing and consumption in Burkina Faso.
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The 2016 International Phytosanitary Conference was held at the KEPHIS headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya between 12 and 16 September 2016. The week long international conference attracted over 100 delegates from 40 countries who deliberated on pertinent issues touching on the health of plants, plant products and regulated articles. International Potato Center (CIP) …
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The Head of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Rwanda, Ambassador Michael Ryan, visited Kayonza and Rwamagana districts in Eastern Rwanda on 24th August 2016. He met farmers who are multipliers of the Orange Fleshed Sweetpotato (OFSP) and assessed the general agricultural situation in the region. In June this …
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