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THE SPHI 18TH SPEEDBREEDERS’ AND GENOMICS COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE MEETING HELD IN MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE

Faith Njunge June 27, 2019 News 0

The Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative (SPHI) SpeedBreeders’ and Genomics Community of Practice (CoP) held its 18th consultation meeting on 4th to 7th June 2019, at the VIP Grand Hotel, Maputo, Mozambique.

SCIENTISTS FIND SECRET IN SWEETPOTATOES, EAT THEM OR MISS OUT

Faith Njunge June 26, 2019 News 1

Scientists Find Secret In Sweet Potatoes, Eat Them Or Miss OutYou may have shovelled down those sweet potatoes on your plate. Others have never allowed sweet potatoes on their plate. It is a common phenomenon that sweet potatoes are traditionally considered food for low income earners on the lowest position …

DR TAWANDA MUZHINGI-2019 FRIEDMAN SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AWARD WINNER

Faith Njunge June 18, 2019 News 1

Congratulations to Dr. Tawanda Muzhingi, a CIP regional food scientist and nutritional biochemist based in Nairobi, Kenya, for being one of the three winners of the 2019 Friedman School Alumni Association Award. Dr. Tawanda received the Rising Star Award. The award is a recognition of Dr. Tawanda’s work in leading …

The SPHI Seed Systems and Crop Management Community of Practice in Mekelle, Tigray Region in Ethiopia

Faith Njunge June 1, 2019 News 1

The SPHI Seed Systems and Crop Management Community of Practice held its eleventh Consultation- 14-16th May 2019, Mekelle, Ethiopia, The theme of the meeting was “Consolidating Seed Systems Lessons, Regrouping and Moving the Community Forward’’.

YOUTH IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP: BAKING KENYA A HEALTHIER PLACE

Faith Njunge May 29, 2019 News 0

Baking Industry Awards for Healthy Baker/Bakery of the year Youth all over the world, particularly in Africa, are increasingly finding new and entrepreneurial ways to rewrite the rules and find new ways of solving social problems. Faith Igosangwa, 26, a psychologist from Nairobi, Kenya is the founder and owner of …

SEEDS OF JOY: BUILDING RESILIENCE TO RECURRING DROUGHT IN CHELEKEOT VILLAGE, TIGRAY- ETHIOPIA

Jean Claude Nshimiyimana May 28, 2019 News 1

‘Our lives have changed for the better since the introduction of this crop five years ago’ Abeba Gerezehier and Mulu Birhanu, farmers in the Chekekeot village, told a section of participants from the 11th Consultation of the Seed Systems and Crop Management Community of Practice meeting.

STUDY ENDORSES PROCESSING OF BIOFORTIFIED SWEETPOTATO-BASED BABY FOOD IN REDUCING MALNUTRITION

Vivian Atakos May 27, 2019 News 0

Scientists at the International Potato Center (CIP) have welcomed a recent study supporting the commercial processing of biofortified orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP).

2019 SPHI PHOTO CONTEST DEADLINE: 5TH JULY 2019!!!

Faith Njunge May 16, 2019 News 0

Entrants must be associated with a project aligned to the Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative (SPHI) or a Guest Attending the SPHI 2019 Meeting A message to all amateur and professional photographers – here’s another chance to tear that hard drive open and share your amazing photographs for a …

MARKETING AS AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF SWEETPOTATO SEED SYSTEMS

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.