Want to know a secret? Nobody really makes it on their own, at some point it all comes back to the relationships we make that open the right doors. In every success story there’s likely to be someone that opened a doorway through which that success was found. On …
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Rwanda integrates research centres to boost agriculture
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SUSTAIN Rwanda Receives Visit from Ambassador Michael Ryan – International Potato Center
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Q&A with Kirimi Sindi – International Potato Center
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This brief discuss gender dimensions in sweetpotato production. case study Rwanda. Brielfy, the Rwanda Super Foods Project sought to assess the relative efficiency of sweetpotato product value chains and their potential to increase farmer income and equity. Overall observation is that in many countries, when a crop is commercialized, men become …
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Rwanda is one of densely populated countries in Sub-Saharan Africa with this numbers expected to double by 2020. Urbanization is also increasing leading to growing demand of more processed, faster cooking foods such as wheat products than their rural counterparts. Some of these processed products are relatively expensive and their …
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Rwanda has the highest sweetpotato (SP) production per capita in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Its population is expected to double by 2020 as well as rate of urbanization. Urban consumers demand more processed, faster cooking foods than their rural counterparts. On other hand, SP is increasingly important food security crop in …
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On 30th of November 2015, CIP-Rwanda organized a trip for three guests from the Delegation of European Union to visit the International Potato Center’s (CIP) Scaling up Sweetpotato through Agriculture and Nutrition (SUSTAIN Rwanda) project funded by the United Kingdom government department responsible for administering overseas aid, UKAID, a member …
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The SUSTAIN project aims to reach at least 60,000 direct smallholder beneficiaries and 250,000 indirect beneficiaries in four districts in Rwanda by 2018 with improved varieties and appropriate nutrition information and counseling for caregivers of infants and young children. This flyer outlines the progress made towards this objective between June …
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