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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.
Read More »SASHA Brief 04: To Eat or Not to Eat the Peel of Sweetpotato
OFSP Nutrition Pamphlet in Swahili 1
SPHI Brief 21: Feed the Future Rwanda: Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato (OFSP) for Income and Nutrition Activity
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 …
Read More »Module 6: Dietary Diversity Score
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 …
Read More »Module 7: Frequency of Consumption of Vitamin A Rich Foods
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 …
Read More »Making sweetpotato leaves-a life changing game: A story of AHEZANAHO Epiphanie
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 …
Read More »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
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, …
Read More »Module 7: Frequency of Consumption of Vitamin A Rich Foods
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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