Sweetpotato Knowledge Portal
SPHI Brief 32: Emergency Response with Potato and Sweetpotato Among Drought-Affected Farmers in SNNPR, Ethiopia
The Emergency potato and sweetpotato seed support enabled farmers in the Southern Nations Nationalities and People’s Region (SNNPR) to restore the varieties they lost to a severe drought in 2015/2017, and improve household food and nutrition security. From June 2016 to June 2018, 13,000 direct benefi ciary farmers and over …
Read More »20th EAPR Triennial Conference Versailles, France, 9-14 July 2017
POTATO FACING GLOBAL CHALLENGES Take the opportunity to exchange on the advances in potato research where the very first promotion of the crop occurred in France! For the third time since the creation of the EAPR, France is honoured to welcome the 20th Triennial Conference of the European Association for …
Read More »Drought effects on root and tuber production: A meta-analysis
Roots and tubers such as potatoes and cassava rank within the top six among the world’s most important food crops, yet the extent to which their global production has been adversely affected by drought remains unclear. Greater uncertainties exist on how drought effects co-vary with: (1) root and tuber species, …
Read More »SPHI Brief 2016: Scaling out sweetpotato and potato-led interventions to improve nutrition and food security in Tigray and SNNPR, Ethiopia
This is a brief of the ‘Scaling out sweetpotato and potato-led interventions to improve nutrition and food security in Tigray and SNNPR’ project, which is being implemented in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR) and the Tigray region in the north of Ethiopia. At present, the project covers …
Read More »Implementing CIP’s Vision: Impact targeting
This is a study on Implementing CIP’s Vision: Impact targeting. This study reports an updated targeting exercise to identify priority populations of the world for CIP’s commodity research, combining indicators of livelihood and the importance of the two crops of principal concern to CIP, potato and sweetpotato. Indicators of livelihood …
Read More »Potato Value Chain Analysis and Development in Ethiopia: Case of Tigray and SNNP Regions
CloneSelector Users guide – Potato
CloneSelector is a tool developed to help plant breeder carry out field trials. In version 1.1 the functionality is focused on the process of carrying out a trial to test a list of germplasm, and it may help you in the following task: Elaborate list of germplasm to test Design …
Read More »Global Projections for Potato and Sweetpotato to the Year 2020
This paper represents some of the key findings of a collaborative study carried out by CIP and IFPRI with input from scientists at CIAT and IITA. It presents future projections for potato and sweetpotato to the year 2020 for the purpose of contributing to a clearer vision of the role …
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