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Faith Njunge 3 weeks ago News 0

Rwanda has made good progress on improving its agricultural production in recent years, and the International Potato Center (CIP) has contributed to this through its promotion of orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) and, more recently, potato varieties. Yet poverty and malnutrition persist in many rural areas, where farmers not only need improved varieties and quality planting material but also training in best practices to ensure high yields.

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Faith Njunge 4 weeks ago News 0

An agri-processing company in Tanzania producing nutritional, sweet potato-based foods is providing a ready market for local women and young farmers.

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Faith Njunge 4 weeks ago News 0

The scale of the nutrition challenge facing the world is huge and if governments do not get a grip on the problem, our global food system could end up bankrupting our health systems. Malnutrition costs the African economy an estimated USD 25 billion a year, or 11% of GDP, and …

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Faith Njunge 4 weeks ago News 0

Processing sweet potato into flour has proven to be one of the means to diversify bakery products, prevent post-harvest losses and provide farmers with a ready market for their produce, players in the potato value chain have said.

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Faith Njunge September 3, 2019 News 1

Ninety-one people from fourteen countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), as well as the USA, UK, and Peru, convened in Kigali, Rwanda on 24 August, 2019, for the 10th Annual Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative (SPHI) at the Ubumwe Hotel in Kigali.  The theme of this year’s SPHI meeting was …

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Faith Njunge September 1, 2019 News 0

Understanding farmers’ willingness to pay for crop planting materialsExperimental auctions reveal the true willingness of farmers to pay for various farming inputs and outputs. This is one of the main findings of scientists with the CGIAR Research Programs on Policies, Institutions and Markets and Roots, Tubers and Bananas now working …

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Faith Njunge September 1, 2019 News 0

This year, SPHI’s Photo Contest had a total submission of 64 eligible photographs. A select judging panel were tasked with coming up with 11 winners for the four categories. The people’s choice award was selected during the meeting. This is a presentation on all the photos submitted and the successful …

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Faith Njunge July 29, 2019 News 0

Sweetpotato jams and juices contribute to forest conservation in the PhilippinesOnce considered a survival food during times of drought or severe rains, sweetpotato cultivation is quickly turning into a lucrative business opportunity for entrepreneurial farmers while promoting forest conservation in the process. In a swath of the Philippines where the …

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