Sweetpotato Knowledge Portal
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 …
Read More »Presentation 16. Scaling sweetpotato Triple S Plus: Gender responsive options for quality planting material, higher yields and extended shelf life for storage roots in Ethiopia, Ghana
PRESENTATION 07: Scaling Sweetpotato Triple S Plus: What are we Learning Ethiopia and Ghana
SPHI Brief 44: Ghana's KNUST: Creating an Entrepreneurial Hub for Young Africans
As part of contribution to reposition sweetpotato in Ghana’s food economy for health and wealth creation, KNUST in collaboration with its partners, encouraged more students to partake in the 3rd Edition of the Sweetpotato Training of Trainers (ToT) Course dubbed “Everything you need to know about sweetpotato”. At the end …
Read More »An Orange light has gone dim: West Africa’s OFSP advocate & Former U.N Secretary-General has gone to rest
On the 18th day of August 2018, we awoke to the sad news. Kofi Annan, an advocate of the OFSP in West Africa is no more. He was eighty years old. The Former Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, and his wife Nane Annan, have been tirelessly behind …
Read More »SARI & PARTNERS RELEASE 3 NEW COLOURFUL SWEETPOTATO VARIETIES IN GHANA.
On 2nd May 2018, The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research—Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (CSIR — SARI) in Ghana in collaboration with the International Potato Centre (CIP) has released three new varieties of C for cultivation by farmers in Northern Ghana, for food security, wealth and health. The event was …
Read More »JUMPSTARTING ORANGE FLESHED SWEETPOTATO IN WEST AFRICA THROUGH DIVERSIFIED MARKETS
Jumpstarting Orange Fleshed Sweetpotato in West Africa through diversified market, hereafter referred to as Jumpstarting Project, is a 3 years project managed by International Potato Center (CIP). The project started in 2014 and is being implemented in 3 West African countries, namely Burkina Faso, Ghana and Nigeria. The overall goal …
Read More »Ghana hosts second Training-of-Trainers’ course on “Everything you need to know about sweetpotato”
Ghana has hosted its second Training-of-Trainers’ course on “Everything you need to know about sweetpotato.” The training was held in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi-Ghana and Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research-Crops Research Institute (CSIR-CRI), Fumesua-Ghana from the 22nd May to 2nd June, 2017. The …
Read More »Sweetpotato production: A simple guide to Good Agricultural Practices.
A simple guide for sweetpotato production tuned to the West African & sub-Saharan setting to enable the rural farmer understand basic activities that are needed to produce quality roots.
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