Sweetpotato Knowledge Portal
A Manual for Health Extension Workers and PIN Community Facilitators (Toolkit) This curriculum was designed by Emory University as part of the EU financed “Quality Diets for Better Health” project. Presents the programme for nine sessions on OFSOP production, vitamin A, nutrition, complementary feeding and the use of OFSP for …
Read More »Quality Diets for Better Health Formative Nutrition Report: Assessment of Infant and Young Child Feeding in Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region, Ethiopia
Infant and young child feeding in Ethiopia is sub-optimal, and is especially so in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR), Ethiopia. The International Potato Center (CIP) and People in Need (PIN) are working with Emory University and local stakeholders to implement the Quality Diets for Better Health (QDBH) …
Read More »PRESENTATION 07: Scaling Sweetpotato Triple S Plus: What are we Learning Ethiopia and Ghana
SPHI Brief 38: Strengthening Institutional Systems for Scaling up OFSP for Improved Nutrition and Food Security in Tigray and SNNPR, Ethiopia
From July 2017 to June 2018, a total of 8.45 million orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) cuttings (1,317,500 in Tigray and 7,131,220 in Southern Nations Nationalities and People Region (SNNPR)) were distributed. These directly reached 19,758 households (HHs): 5,348 HHs in Tigray and 14,410 HHs in SNNPR. In addition, continuous advocacy efforts …
Read More »SPHI Brief 35: Introduction of Irrigation Technologies for Continuous Sweetpotato Seed Production and Supply in Southern Ethiopia
To assist Farmer Training Centers in SNNPR to become sustainable producers of quality sweetpotato planting material, investments in water harvesting and water lifting (solar pumps, rope and washer pumps) have been made in 26 centers based on a technical assessment.
Read More »SPHI Brief 32: Emergency Response with Potato and Sweetpotato Among Drought-Affected Farmers in SNNPR, Ethiopia
The Emergency potato and sweetpotato seed support enabled farmers in the Southern Nations Nationalities and People’s Region (SNNPR) to restore the varieties they lost to a severe drought in 2015/2017, and improve household food and nutrition security. From June 2016 to June 2018, 13,000 direct benefi ciary farmers and over …
Read More »Ethiopia also wants to know everything about sweetpotato…
Since 2012, the International Potato Center (CIP) has run nineteen editions of its Training of Trainers (TOT) course “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Sweetpotato” in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria and Tanzania. On July 3, 2017, Ethiopia has, for the first time, joined this select group. From now …
Read More »SGA progress review: presentation 12: TARI
TARI is one of the beneficiaries of financial support through Sub-Grant Agreements (SGAs) to develop models for sustainable production of sweetpotato pre-basic seed by December 2018. This is a presentation of the institutions progress towards this goal.
Read More »SGA progress review: presentation 7: SARI Ethiopia
SARI Ethiopia is one of the beneficiaries of financial support through Sub-Grant Agreements (SGAs) to develop models for sustainable production of sweetpotato pre-basic seed by December 2018. This is a presentation of the institutions progress towards this goal.
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