Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in collaboration with its partners is repositioning sweetpotato in Ghana’s food economy for health and wealth creation, making it an entrepreneurial hub in Africa. The capacities of participants of its annual Sweetpotato Training of Trainers (ToT) Course dubbed “Everything you need to …
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This training report is on the provitamin A (PVA) Maize Training of Trainers (ToT) training held on 28-30 March, 2017, at the Hall Mark Conference Hall, Kihesa, Iringa, Tanzania.. BNFB, through one of its consortium partner, The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and in collaboration with Tanzania Center for …
Read More »Capacity building in the Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation Community of Practice: What Participants have to say
Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation Community of Practice (MLE CoP) started in 2015, with 16 members, drawn from five different organizations. Since then, the membership has grown to 35. The CoP members have diverse backgrounds: agricultural economics, value chains, gender, M&E, public health and agronomy. Its activities and discussions have emphasized …
Read More »First ToT Course on ‘Everything You need to Know about Sweetpotato’ in Ghana
This article was written by the Local Organizing Committee of the ToT Course and posted on their behalf by Damian Laryea The first ever 10-day Training of Trainers course titled ‘Everything you need to know about sweetpotato’ was held at International Centre for Innovative Learning- Kwame Nkrumah University for …
Read More »Presentation 3: Enhanced Homestead Food Production: Agri-nutrition approaches for lasting change to diets and livelihoods
HKI implements evidenced-based nutrition sensitive programs that integrate agriculture practices with nutrition messaging through the HKI signature program approach known as Enhanced Homestead Food Production (EHFP). EHFP has been adapted and successfully implemented in 10 countries throughout Asia and Africa. The model has been adapted to suit varied contexts including …
Read More »Capacity Building in sweetpotato research
This presentation by Marc and Mercy during the 14th Annual Sweetpotato Breeding meeting covered on the following: Genetic diversity, evolutionary history and epigenetic analysis of the East African highland bananas Analysis of DNA markers (SSR, AFLPs, SNPS) data for a polyploid crop Molecular data Softwares and Statistics packages Use of sequencing …
Read More »PRES09_Achievements: Capacity Strengthening & Gender Integration under RAC
09This presentation is about Achievements: Capacity Strengthening & Gender Integration under the Reaching Agents of Change Project. It was made during the 2014 Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative Annual meeting that was held in Nairobi.
Read More »PRES09_Achievements: Capacity Strengthening & Gender Integration under RAC
09This presentation is about Achievements: Capacity Strengthening & Gender Integration under the Reaching Agents of Change Project. It was made during the 2014 Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative Annual meeting that was held in Nairobi.
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