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SASHA Brief 21: The Sweetpotato Community of Practice Focuses on Sharing Experiences and Promoting Product Development

Author: Jan Low, Margaret McEwan September 26, 2018

The 8th Annual Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative (SPHI) Technical meeting was held in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, aligned with an Exhibition held at the Mlimani Mall

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Presentation 14: Developments and Advances in Sweetpotato Processing in China

Author: Xie Jiang 2017

This presentation was the keynote address during the 2017 Marketing, Processing and Utilization meeting held in Kisumu Kenya.

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Q&A with Antonio Magnaghi on innovating OFSP products and equipment

Lilies Gachanja August 30, 2016 Uncategorized 0

Antonio Magnaghi is the proprietor of Euro Ingredients Limited. He is a gastronomist and food application process technologist who helps develop innovative orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) products and equipment for their production. Magnaghi spoke to Christine Bukania and Lilies Gachanja about working with the International Potato Center (CIP) to diversify OFSP …

OFSP in the spotlight at the FARA Africa Agriculture Science Week in Kigali

Lilies Gachanja June 18, 2016 Uncategorized 0

Orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) has been hailed as an innovation with a promising future. OFSP was thrust in the spotlight at the 7th Africa Agriculture Science Week (AASW7) and Forum for Agriculture Research in Africa (FARA) General Assembly, held in Kigali, Rwanda, between the 13th and 16th of June 2016. The …

Prof. Ibok Oduro talks about the excitement of sweetpotato processing

Oduro facilitates a panel discussion on youth and gender at the 2016 Marketing, Processing and Utilization Community of Practice meeting in Tanzania

Christine Bukania April 8, 2016 Uncategorized 0

“I’m always very excited to work with sweetpotato because you can look at its nutrient strength and tap into that strength to develop products for all age groups, from the young to the old,” says Prof. Ibok Oduro, the head of the Department Food Science and Technology at Kwame Nkrumah University of …

Presentation 17: Working with cooperatives and groups in root marketing and product development: Lessons earned

Author: [49] Contributors: Administrator March 01, 2016

This presentation outlines the lesson learned while working with cooperatives and groups for marketing roots and product development. The take home message focuses on branding as key for success, partnership with industries key for OFSP adoption and availability in market, and research is essential to ensure success of products developed.

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Presentation 9: Scaling out potato and sweetpotato interventions in SNNPR and Tigray Ethiopia Product Development Ethiopia

Author: Mariama Fofanah Contributors: Administrator March 01, 2016

This presentation documents a project set to scale out potato and sweetpotato interventions in Ethiopia. The main focus being to improved food and nutrition security among vulnerable households with young children in Tigray and SNNPR through increased production and consumption of micronutrient-rich sweetpotato and potato varieties as part of diversified …

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Presentation 8: Progress on commercialization of OFSP based products in Malawi

Author: Jean Pankuku Contributors: Administrator March 01, 2016

This presentation reports on a project progress initiated to commercialize the orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) based products in Malawi. The major impacts observed include increased incomes for farmers, formalized OFSP markets establishment, increased accessibility of VitA-rich foods and disease free OFSP vines, and increased yields and better quality roots from improved …

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Presentation 6: Use of orange-fleshed sweet potato to produce commercially viable bakery items

Author: SIMON GULE Contributors: Administrator March 01, 2016

The suitability of incorporating the orange fleshed sweet potato puree to commercially produce Wheat based bakery products was investigated. The project was introduced to Tuskys by International Potato Centre (CIP) to expand the use of orange fleshed sweet potato and to enable consumers benefit from the health aspects and also …

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