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Report on Sweetpotato value chain study: Exploring opportunities to promote greater exploitation of the benefits of Sweetpotato in representative states of Nigeria.

Author: Gideon Onumah , Adewale Dipeolu et al. Contributors: Jan Low, Ted Carey, Keith Tomlins May 12, 2012

This report is the output of a study undertaken as part of the Sweetpotato Action for Security and Health in Africa (SASHA) Project, which aims to improve “food security and livelihoods of 150,000 poor households in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) by exploiting the untapped potential of sweetpotato”. The study seeks to …
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SweetGAINS SpeedBreed and Seed Community of Practice (CoP) West Africa virtual meeting

Author: Bernice Wairimu Contributors: Jan Low, Ted Carey, Keith Tomlins, Reuben SSALI August 07, 2020

The SweetGAINS SpeedBreed and Seed CoP – West Africa virtual meeting was held on 27 and 29 May and 1, 3 and 5 June 2020. The meeting aimed to ensure the continuing development and dissemination of nutritious and productive sweetpotato varieties for West Africa. The meetings were organized by CIP …
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Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) vine silage: a cost-effective supplement for milk production in smallholder dairy-farming systems of East Africa?

Author: John Goopy

AbstractContext. Dairy production in East Africa is dominated by smallholder production systems, but is dogged by suboptimal milk production mediated by poor nutrition. Grain-based concentrates can be used to make the energy and protein deficits in rain-fed systems, but this strategy faces several hurdles. For livestock production systems to be …
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Topic 20: Sweetpotato weevil management?

Author: Kwame Ogero July 31, 2020

Sweetpotato weevil is the most serious pest of sweetpotato, with reported losses ranging from 5% to 80% worldwide. The larva, which feeds both on stems and roots, is the most destructive stage of the insect.  The control of sweetpotato weevil has met some degree of difficulties. It’s presence inside the …
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Topic 18: Tapping ICTs for better sweetpotato seed systems

Author: Kwame Ogero July 28, 2020

Several studies have shown that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)-enabled platforms can improve farmer access to extension services, market information, financial services and inputs including improved seed. There are also efforts aimed at applying ICTs in seed systems for vegetatively propagated crops. For instance, the Seed Tracker developed by IITA …
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TOPIC 2_2020: Enhancing marketing among farmer-multipliers (DVMs) to reduce dependence on NGO customers

Author: Kwame Ogero July 16, 2020

Over the past years, tremendous progress has been made towards the development of sweetpotato varieties for the consumers in various African countries. These efforts have been funded by the different African governments or (and) international donors. As a result, the availability of improved sweetpotato varieties is no longer the greatest …
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TOPIC 1_2020: Increasing adoption of newly released sweetpotato varieties through innovative and sustainable seed delivery pathways

Author: Kwame Ogero June 18, 2020

Great investments have been made towards development of improved sweetpotato varieties. This has borne fruit with release of a significant number of improved white-fleshed, orange-fleshed and more recently purple-fleshed varieties. However, traditional varieties still dominate the smallholder farm systems despite the declining yields. Changing this requires that diverse user-preferences are …
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1st SweetGAINS SpeedBreed and Seed Community of Practice (CoP) – East and Central Africa meeting Kigali, Rwanda.

Author: Bernice Wairimu Contributors: Jan Low, Ted Carey, Keith Tomlins, Reuben SSALI, Kwame Ogero, Bonny Oloka July 31, 2020

The SweetGAINS project SpeedBreed and Seed Community of Practice -East and Central Africa meeting was held at Galaxy hotel in Kigali Rwanda from 18th to 22nd February 2020. The theme of the meeting was ‘Towards building synergies between modernized sweetpotato breeding and seed systems for successful delivery of improved varieties …
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