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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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Faith Njunge February 27, 2019 News 0

NC State Winter 2018 Behind that rise is a remarkable success story with its roots at NC State, one that reaches into the familiar farms of eastern North Carolina and to the often forgotten corners of a handful of African nations. It is a story of science and salvation, of …

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Faith Njunge February 15, 2019 News 0

We’re thrilled to announce the call for abstracts for the Marketing, Processing and Utilization Community of Practice Meeting. The annual meeting will be held in Kampala, Uganda on April 9-11, 2019. To enhance the living standards of food producers, the value-chain approaches had received extensive attention. Recently, good nutrition through …

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Julius Juma Okello February 13, 2019 News 0

The Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation (MLE) CoP conducted a one-day training of its members on the use of qualitative research methods in routine monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of development projects. The training was held in held in Entebbe – Uganda – on February 05 and 06, 2019 and attended by …

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