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A new variety of potatoes introduced in Gakenke District has increased output from four tonnes to 12 tonnes per hectare as farmers in the area appealed to government to avail more land to them.

A national prevalence survey which was done by TFNC in 1998 revealed that 24 percent of children had serum retinol levels below 20 mg/dl, and 69 percent of lactating women had breast milk retinol levels below 30 mg/dl.

Their report on the first electrical enhancement of sweet potatoes, a dietary staple since prehistoric times, was part of the 244 th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Provides a draft overview of quality control in sweetpotato seed practices Explains objectives and structure of FAO technical guidelines for Quality Declared Planting Material.

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).