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The key aim of the ‘Nutritious Orange-Fleshed-Sweetpotato for Niassa, Mozambique’ project, which began in November 2012, is to improve vitamin A and energy intake for at least 20,000 rural households with women and young children using orange-fleshed sweetpotato focused, food-based approaches that ensure at least 20% of households growing OFSP …

The VISTA project had the privilege to present its work in promoting orange-fleshed sweetpotato to the Mozambican Head of State, Filipe Nyusi during the Posto Agronomico of Nampula on June 8, 2015.

Bio-fortified Orange Fleshed Sweetpotato (OFSP) features in this year's 2015 Borlaug Dialogue.

Sweetpotato production experiences a huge yield gap between farmer field and researcher managed farm trials. The major reason is poor soil fertility management and nitrogen (N) depletion. This poster reports on nitrogen management in sweetpotato for Mozambique.

The main objective of this presentation was: To demonstrate family means for inter genepool crosses 8A x 8B (64 families) and intra-genepool crosses 8A x 8A (n * n-1) / 2 = 24 families) as well as intra-genepool crosses 8B x 8B (n * n-1) / 2 = 24 families) …

An estimated 39% of Mozambicans are undernourished and 44 % of children under 5 are stunted . Food security requires not only increased food supply, but also availability, access and proper utilization of food by men, women and children. Sweetpotato, with its broad genetic diversity, provides drought tolerant varieties of …

Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is a serious public health problem, with 30% of Nigerian preschool aged children deficient in this micronutrient. VAD increases risk of disease, visual impairment and death in children, and night blindness in pregnant and lactating women. Like other forms of under-nutrition, VAD undermines the country’s future …

Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is a serious public health problem, with over 69% of preschool aged Mozambican children deficient in this micronutrient. VAD increases risk of disease, visual impairment and death in children, and night blindness in pregnant and lactating women. Like other forms of under-nutrition, VAD undermines the country’s …

This brief report on the Orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) project rapid expansion within Niassa one of most remote and sparsely populated areas in Mozambique. As part of the growth research to better understand how to improve young child feeding practices, and initiated market development activities for fresh roots and orange fleshed …