To enhance the living standards of food producers, the value-chain approaches had received extensive attention. Recently, good nutrition through healthy diet is gathering momentum. Now agricultural value-chains are considering how it can contribute to sustain and enhance life. Thus, the nutrition lens is being encouraged to be applied to all activities from farm to fork to ensure the consumption of foods that meet daily nutrient needs. It is against this background that the Marketing, Processing, and Utilization Community of Practice platform…

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in partnership with CSIR-Crops Research Institute and the International Potato Centre (CIP) is offering an intensive 5-day course on “Orange flesh sweetpotato processing and product development”, taking place from 22nd to 26th April, 2019. This course has been derived from the “Everything you need to know about sweetpotato" course, developed by CIP and implemented by KNUST in collaboration with CSIR-Crops Research Institute for 3 years.The training course dubbed “OFSP Processing and Product…

The Seed Systems and Crop Management Community of Practice Meeting is scheduled to take place from  13-17 May 2019.  If interested in attending the meeting please contact Jan Low on J.LOW@CGIAR.ORG