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The meeting was very successful and helped to synergize the efforts of the RAC project staff between the 2 partner institutions – CIP and HKI, and between the three primary countries of RAC (Mozambique, Nigeria and Tanzania). It also prepared RAC staff in the 3 countries for the mid-term review …

This poster is on facilitating learning and capacity strengthening. It shows the lessons that are learnt from the Reaching Agents of Change (RAC) project that include:   1. A multi-disciplinary, multi-agency partnership is critical for scaling up OFSP due to widespread malnutrition in the target countries, and the crosscutting nature …

Le Centre International de la Pomme de Terre (CIP) et le projet “Promotion de la Patate Douce à Chair Orange en Afrique de l’Ouest à Travers des Marchés Diversifiés mis en Œuvre au Burkina Faso par l’INERA et iDE (mais aussi au Ghana et au Nigeria) organise à Bobo Dioulasso …

The International Potato Center (CIP) and Helen Keller International (HKI) have entered into collaboration to implement the Reaching Agents of Change (RAC) Project. The project’s intention is to promote the consumption of orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP), high in provitamin A carotenoids, as a food-based approach to address Vitamin A deficiency …

The objectives of the Workshop were viewed through plenary discussions, presentation of group work, brainstorming and breakout sessions. After each plenary, participants were divided into small groups and assigned to create draft objectives, finalize advocacy objectives and SWOT analysis. Each State representative spelt out their workshop expectations e.g. enhancing and …

Environ 218 millions d’Africains sont victimes de faim et de malnutrition chroniques. La promotion de variétés de patate douce à chair orange (PDCO) qui sont précoces, à haut rendement, résistantes à la sécheresse et ont une forte teneur en bêta-carotène peut contribuer à accroitre la diversité et la sécurité alimentaires …

RAC has strengthened the capacity of Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) as well as that of 15 national facilitators to conduct training of trainers (ToT) courses on sweetpotato. A total of 76 secondary trainers and 2,899 tertiary trainers and farmers have been trained.

This article appeared in the L’Observeteur newspaper of 10 September 2014.   “La carence en micronutrimen’ts est un problème de santé publique qui provoque de nombreuses carences, dont celle en vitamine A. La patate douce à chair orange (PDCO) représente une alternative efficace à ces maux. Un plaidoyer en faveur …

This report presents an overview of the Reaching Agents of Change (RAC) workshop in Tanzania. It covers background information on the RAC Project of the International Potato Center (CIP) and the efforts of Zenete França and Associates: Consultants in Learning and Capacity Building (ZFA) to support RAC in empowering its …