Overall Challenge: Yields of sweetpotatoes are low in Africa and improved crop management will be critical to increases in productivity and yet there is virtually a research vacuum on integrated crop management (ICM) and most farmers have few incentives to intensify crop management.

So the question is: how can quality information related to sweetpotato ICM be generated and how could this information be made available to farmers through appropriate means so that improved crop management can contribute to increased productivity and take advantage of emerging market opportunities?