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Rosemary Kihiu May 7, 2019 News 2

Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS) undertakes two critical functions in the sweetpotato seed system: as the regional centre of excellence for germplasm management    and exchange, in collaboration with CIP, it supports clean-up and virus indexing of breeder materials for national sweetpotato breeding and seed programmes across sub-Saharan Africa. Secondly, it multiplies pathogen tested pre-basic seed for sale within Kenya. 

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Faith Njunge April 30, 2019 News 1

Research and Innovation NC State grew the North Carolina sweet potato industry into a global powerhouse. Now we’re leading the effort to breed sweet potatoes that could provide economic opportunities and better nutrition for people in African countries. Some foods are known as seasonal wonders, making an appearance only once or twice a year when families gather for holiday feasts.

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Faith Njunge April 26, 2019 News 1

Africa is brimming with a generation of ‘venturers; entrepreneurs and innovators who are constantly establishing new businesses and developing new technologies to meet needs, solve problems, simplify lives and transform societies.

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Rosemary Kihiu April 26, 2019 News 1

Top on the agenda of the 10th consultation of the Seed Systems and Crop Management Community of Practice (CoP), in November 2018, was assessing the effectiveness of partner National Research Institutions' (NARIs) marketing strategies -for early generation sweetpotato seed.

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Vivian Atakos April 5, 2019 News 0

The Tehilah Bakery and Value Addition Centre, located 20 kilometers from Malawi’s second largest city, Blantyre, focuses on commercializing nutritious and healthy foods using locally grown crops.

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Rosemary Kihiu March 21, 2019 News 0

How village savings and loans groups, orange fleshed sweetpotato and the Triple-S innovation are empowering women in Northern Ghana. ‘For me, growing sweetpotato is much easier than other crops. I use few inputs and have little maintenance and I still get a good yield’ said Ernestine Gbang, a women’s group …

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Faith Njunge March 19, 2019 News 0

The humble sweet potato can help power Africa in the face of climate change Forest fires during a record-breaking warm winter in Europe, Arctic cold in the US and melting glaciers are clear signals that climate change is impacting all of us but it is in Africa where such extreme …

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Faith Njunge March 13, 2019 News 0

Harnessing Sweetpotato Genomics to Improve Breeding and Farmers’ Lives Scientists from the International Potato Center ( CIP) are part of an exciting venture that is working to develop a set of “next-generation” tools for African sweetpotato breeders. Those tools will help breeders develop more resilient, nutritious and high-yielding sweetpotato varieties …

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