The Healthy Lifestyle Project in Nigeria that started in January 2018 has worked to create awareness about the nutritional quality of Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato (OFSP), which has led to uptake of the crop among 4,882 students and their families in urban communities of Ikeja, Lagos State and school gardens established at nine schools (Fig. 1).
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Authors: Akoto Osei
Subjects: Gender, Nutrition, Sweetpotatoes, Sweetpotato agri-food systems
Pages: 2
Publisher: International Potato Center
Publication Date: August 31, 2019
Identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/105940
Rights: Open access: CC-BY-4.0
HOW TO CITE
International Potato Center. 2019. SPHI Brief 35. Promoting OFSP for income, women’s empowerment, and nutrition: Lessons from Helen Keller International’s Programs in Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. CIP. 2 p.