This brief describes the objectives, activities, and progress made in implementing a three-year project that targets informal and formal orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) markets in Ghana, Nigeria and Burkina Faso between June 2015 and July 2016. The project is working towards four major outcomes at each target location: to establish commercial sweetpotato seed systems to provide clean planting material year round; to develop formal and informal markets for OFSP; to enable farmers including women, to participate in OFSP value chains; and to increase consumption of OFSP and other vitamin A-rich foods by vulnerable target populations, particularly women and children under the age of five.
Authors: Putri Ernawati Abidin, Ted Carey, Souleimane Adekambi, SOME Koussao, Janet Trucker, Brian Kiger, Kwabena Acheremu, MARIAN QUAIN, Jude Njoku, Francis Kweku Amagloh, Esi Foriwa Amoaful, Putri Ernawati Abidin, Ted Carey, Souleimane Adekambi, SOME Koussao, Janet Trucker, Brian Kiger, Kwabena Acheremu, MARIAN QUAIN, Jude Njoku, Francis Kweku Amagloh, Esi Foriwa Amoaful
Pages: 4
Publication Date: 2016