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SASHA Brief 04: To Eat or Not to Eat the Peel of Sweetpotato

Author: Amandio Ussaca, Godwill Makunde et al. September 26, 2018

Results of this experiment, clearly prove that it is best from a nutrition standpoint to carefully wash, but not peel your orange-fleshed sweetpotato root before cooking.

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OFSP Nutrition Pamphlet in Swahili 1

Author: CIP September 01, 2009

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SPHI Brief 21: Feed the Future Rwanda: Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato (OFSP) for Income and Nutrition Activity

Author: Kirimi Sindi, ndirigwe jean Contributors: Administrator September 19, 2017

Significant investment in Rwanda’s agricultural sector has played an important role in the rapid and sustained economic growth which the nation has witnessed in recent years. This growth has benefited millions of smallholder farmers and contributed to the steadily declining poverty rate throughout the country. Despite these advances, however, the …

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Module 6: Dietary Diversity Score

Contributors: Administrator 2016

Poor households, women of reproductive age, and young children living in resource-poor settings are at high risk of inadequate micronutrient intakes when diets lack diversity. Diets of the poor are dominated by staple foods, which often supply 60-70% of their calories, but fail to provide adequate quantities of micronutrients essential …

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Module 7: Frequency of Consumption of Vitamin A Rich Foods

Contributors: Administrator 2016

Micronutrient malnutrition, the lack of vitamin A in particular, is one of the major public health problems in less developed countries. It can lead to blindness and death in children under five years of age. Globally, an estimated 250 million preschool children are vitamin A deficient, of which about 250,000 …

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Making sweetpotato leaves-a life changing game: A story of AHEZANAHO Epiphanie

Ahezanaho showing off sweetpotato green leaves she cooks as vegetables and exports in Bukavu/DRC. Photo: Aime Ndayisenga (CIP)

Aime Ndayisenga June 15, 2017 News 0

Ahezanaho Epiphanie is a 42-year old mother of six and a farmer living in Terimbere village, North West of Rubavu District. Since she got married in early 1991, Ahezanaho has relied on subsistence agriculture to earn a living. However, life took a new twist in 2012 for Ahezanaho and her …

African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND) Volume 17 No. 2 (2017) Special Issue devoted to Biofortification

Christine Bukania April 22, 2017 Comments Off on African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND) Volume 17 No. 2 (2017) Special Issue devoted to Biofortification

African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND) publishes Special Issue devoted to biofortification

Christine Bukania April 21, 2017 Uncategorized 0

The African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND) has published a Special Issue devoted to Biofortification. The Special Issue is a culmination of an idea mooted by Dr Howarth Bouis, one of the four 2016 World Food Prize laureates and features 17 chapters. In her forward, the AFJAND Editor-In-Chief, …

Module 7: Frequency of Consumption of Vitamin A Rich Foods

Contributors: Administrator 2016

Micronutrient malnutrition, the lack of vitamin A in particular, is one of the major public health problems in less developed countries. It can lead to blindness and death in children under five years of age. Globally, an estimated 250 million preschool children are vitamin A deficient, of which about 250,000 …

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