Sweetpotato Knowledge Portal
This presentation, made during the 2017 MLE CoP annual meeting, presents Modules 8 (Dissemination) of the Tools and Techniques for Monitoring Key Indicators of Sweetpotato Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Practitioner’s Manual. The goal is to develop a practical toolkit that focuses on the essential indicators to capture progress in dissemination, yield …
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This presentation, made during the 2017 MLE CoP annual meeting, presents Modules 8 (Dissemination) of the Tools and Techniques for Monitoring Key Indicators of Sweetpotato Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Practitioner’s Manual. The goal is to develop a practical toolkit that focuses on the essential indicators to capture progress in dissemination, yield improvement …
Read More »Tudo o Que Sempre Quis Saber sobre a Batata-doce – Volume 6
Este manual contém “Tudo o que sempre quis saber sobre a batata-doce”. Esperamos que o manual seja útil para os que estão envolvidos na capacitação de extensionistas e pessoal de ONGs a diferentes níveis, e que estes por sua vez irão capacitar produtores duma maneira prática que os ajuda a construir as …
Read More »Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir à propos de la patate douce – Volume 6
Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir à propos de la patate douce. Manuel de FDF pour le projet Atteindre les Agents du Changement. Thème 11: Aspects liés au Genre et à la Diversité. Ce thème traite l’importance de la reconnaissance des questions du genre et de la diversité en …
Read More »Vyote Unavyopaswa Kujua Kuhusu Viazi Vitamu – Juzuu ya 6
Vyote Unavyopaswa Kujua Kuhusu Viazi Vitamu Kitabu cha mafunzo kwa wakufunzi cha mradi wa kuwafikia wadau wa Mabadiliko. Juzuu ya 6. Mada ya 11: Jinsia na masuala anuwai. Umuhimu wa kutambua jinsia na masuala anuwai katika kilimo na mifumo ya viazi vitamu vinaelezewa. Hali ambazo viazi vitamu vinalimwa kama zao la wanawake …
Read More »Presentation: Scaling out sweetpotato and potato-led interventions to improve nutrition and food security in Tigray and SNNPR, Ethiopia
Ethiopia is experiencing food insecurity and malnutrition, population pressure as well as effects of climate change. All these are indicators of need for new approaches such as production of nutrient rich root and tuber crops for instance potato and orange sweetpotato (OFSP) to avert over reliance on grains. This presentation …
Read More »Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sweetpotato TOT Manual – Volume 6
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 …
Read More »Improving farmers’ access to sweetpotato clean planting materials through partnerships in the value chain
Different surveys indicated sweetpotato production is encountering numerous constraints, among them the availability of clean planting materials of most varieties but more so of the new Vitamin A rich Orange Fleshed Sweetpotato. This is a brochure on improving farmers’ access to sweetpotato clean planting materials.
Read More »Rapid Multiplication and Dissemination of Sweetpotato Varieties with High Yield and ß-Carotene Content
The project aimed at reducing food insecurity, poverty and malnutrition among small-scale farmers in eight districts of central Uganda. This was to be achieved through increased multiplication, distribution, production and consumption of sweetpotato varieties that are not only high yielding and virus resistant but also rich in ß-carotene (a precursor …
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