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Tanzania to tap into healing powers of sweet potatoes
Given viable market information, sweet potato farmers may reduce the post harvest food losses wasted on farm, benefit in trade and other socio-economic endeavours.
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Given viable market information, sweet potato farmers may reduce the post harvest food losses wasted on farm, benefit in trade and other socio-economic endeavours.
Read More »In this posting I´m sharing with you the sucess story of a freed slave who published one of the earliest cookbooks released by an African-American in the US. It happened in 1881.
Read More »On a visit to the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)/CGIAR on 2 Feb 2012, World Bank vice president Rachel Kyte listens to presentations made by CIP's Lydia Wamalwa and ILRI's Sheila Ommeh (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan).
Read More »Major launch event of the ten year Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative (SPHI) and the five year Sweetpotato Action for Security and Health in Africa (SASHA) project held at the Natural Crop Resources Research Institute at Namulonge, Uganda on 26 October, 2009.
Read More »Provides a draft overview of quality control in sweetpotato seed practices Explains objectives and structure of FAO technical guidelines for Quality Declared Planting Material.
Read More »A number of strategies have been proposed to reduce nutritional deficiencies in developing countries. In this paper, we investigated the extent to which consumers in Mozambique would be willing to consume new varieties of orange-fleshed sweet potatoes (OFSPs).
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