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Mobilizing Radio and ICTs to Fight Vitamin A Deficiency by Scaling-up the Production and Consumption of Orange Fleshed Sweetpotato
Vitamin A deficiency is a widespread health challenge in subSaharan Africa. Approximately 250,000 to 500,000 malnourished children in the developing world go blind each year from a deficiency of Vitamin A.
This three-year project aimed to add OFSP to at least 500,000 rural households’ diets through Participatory Radio Campaigns (PRCs) designed to increase the knowledge, skills and commitment of small-scale farmers with respect to OFSP production and consumption.
This project took place in 4 countries between 2012 – 2015: Burkina Faso, Ghana, Uganda and Tanzania.
Sheila Rao: sherao@gmail.com (Project Manager)
Kevin Perkins: kperkins@farmradio.org (Executive Director, Farm Radio International)
Ottawa, Canada
Key Project Information
This project took place in 4 countries between 2012 – 2015 and worked with 15 radio stations, NGOs, nutrition specialists and national research specialists to develop radio programs focused on OFSP. The programs covered three main topic; production, consumption and nutritional knowledge. The project took place in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Uganda and Tanzania. Results from the project showed that radio programs helped to increase knowledge of OFSP (from baseline to endless).
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Reducing Vitamin A deficiency with orange fleshed sweet potatoThis brief describes a project that took place in 4 countries between 2012 - 2015 and worked with 15 radio stations, NGOs, nutrition specialists and national research specialists to develop radio p...
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