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Vyote Unavyopaswa Kujua Kuhusu Viazi Vitamu Kitabu cha mafunzo kwa wakufunzi cha mradi wa kuwafikia wadau wa Mabadiliko. Juzuu ya 5. Mada ya 8: Usimamizi wakati wa mavuno na baada ya mavuno. Uharibifu unaosababishwa wakati wa mavuno na usafirishaji unaweza kupunguza uwezo wa kukaa muda mrefu bila kuharibika na thamani ya viazi …

The Marketing, Processing and Utilization Community of Practice (CoP) met on 20 and 21 May 2015 in Qaribu Inn in Nairobi, to discuss how to scale up marketing, processing and utilization of vitamin-A rich sweetpotato varieties. The CoP brings together professionals working on all levels of the sweetpotato value chain, …

This manual contains ‘Everything you ever wanted to know about sweetpotato’. We hope that it will be useful for those involved in training extensionists and NGO staff at different levels, and that they in turn will train farmers in practical ways that help them to build their problem solving and …

Golden Power Biscuits and mandazi (fried doughnuts) have emerged as the top products made with freshly prepared orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) puree at Urwibutso Enterprises. This flyer shares the process and recipe or preparing these popular products.

SUSTAIN is a 5-year partnership (2013-2018), coordinated by CIP and financed by the UK Department for International Development, to scale up the nutrition benefits of biofortified orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP). The goal is to reach 1.2 million households with under-5 year old children in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Rwanda. SUSTAIN supports …

Catholic Relief services (CRS) was established in 1960 in Rwanda. A key objective was to introduce and support various initiatives aimed at improving food security and nutrition and reducing poverty among vulnerable rural poor. This presentation documents CRS integrated approach combining interventions related to agriculture, nutrition, hygiene and sanitation, and economic …

The presentation is based on the following abstract;   Putri E. Abidin, John Kazembe, Kwabena Asare, Richard A Atuna and Edward E. Carey   1International Potato Center (CIP), c/o CSIR-SARI, P.O. Box 52, Nyankpala, Tamale, Ghana 2CIP, P.O. Box 2054, Blantyre, Malawi 3University for Development Studies (UDS), P.O. Box TL …

Antony Masinde explained the SeFaMaCo model that is meant to connect the players from the seed level to the farmer, market and consumer level. He outlined the progress made by the project, which is entitled ‘Integrated value chain development and smallholder farmer commercialization of banana and sweetpotato for Tanzania, Uganda …

Jacobus Risseeuw runs a commercial sweetpotato production business called Risseeuw Boerdery in Limpopo South Africa. Based on his experience, he outlined the principles of running a successful business, and then shared his experiences and factors that influence successful sweetpotato production. This included an outline of all the stages that are …