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April 2019
TRAINING: ORANGE-FLESHED SWEETPOTATO PROCESSING AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
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…
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Seed Systems and Crop Management Community of Practice Meeting
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
Find out more »July 2019
4th Edition of the Training-of-Trainers’ course: “Everything-you-need-to-know-about-Sweetpotato”
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in partnership with CSIR-Crops Research Institute (CRI) and the International Potato Center (CIP) is offering a 10-day Training-of-Trainers course designed to provide participants with the skills and knowledge to train others; from 8th to 19th July, 2019. This training follows “Everything you ever wanted to know about sweetpotato," developed and implemented by the International Potato Center under the "Reaching Agents of Change” project. The training course dubbed “Everything-you-need-to-know-about-Sweetpotato” will be offered at KNUST and CSIR-CRI…
Find out more »August 2019
African Potato Association 2019 Conference
The African Potato Association’s (APA) core objective is to promote production and utilization of potato and sweet potato for food and nutrition security in Africa. Additionally, the APA facilitates knowledge sharing by bringing together diverse stakeholders in the potato sector across Africa and other countries. Drawing scientists, practitioners and entrepreneurs from over 20 African countries and abroad, the APA members represent an extensive range of expertise in research and development of these promising crops.The African Potato Association local organizing committee together…
Find out more »September 2019
Save the date for AGRF 2019
The African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) is a platform for global and African leaders to develop actionable plans that will move African agriculture forward.
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