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The Open Access (OA) workshop was held in Nairobi, Kenya on September 28th – 29th, 2018. The workshop was organized and implemented through the leadership of the Research Informatics Unit (RIU), Knowledge Resources Center (KRC) and the Sweetpotato Action for Security and Health in Africa (SASHA). The workshop’s main target …

The 8th Annual Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative (SPHI) technical meeting took place from 24 – 26 September, 2017 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The theme of this year’s meeting was ‘Building Resilient Food Systems with Sweetpotato.’ The meeting incorporated a half-day exhibition held at Mlimani City Mall—a popular …

The 2017 annual meeting of the Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation Community of Practice (MLE CoP) was held in Maputo, Mozambique from 30th January to 2nd February 2017. The theme of the meeting was “Harmonization of Sweetpotato for Profit and health Initiative (SPHI) Indicator Data Collection”. The highlight was a practical, …

This presentation shows how demand-driven breeding and germplasm distribution is going on in selected areas and charts a way forward to improve the breeding situation in the test areas.

The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEAL) Community of Practice (CoP) met on 3-4 March at the ILRI Campus in Nairobi to share experiences, skills and lessons in monitoring and evaluation, and to identify ways of tackling challenges. This CoP meeting was held under the umbrella of the Africa-wide Sweetpotato for …

The annual Sweetpotato Breeders’ Meeting was held at Colline Hotel, Mukono, Uganda, from June 2-5, 2015. This was the 14th meeting since 2003 and the seventh since the start of the Sweetpotato Profit and Health Initiative (SPHI) in 2009. The meeting was opened by the Director General of National Agricultural …