Tag Archives: Speedbreeders

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.

At the recent 15th Annual Sweetpotato SpeedBreeders  Meeting, held in Nairobi 6-10 June 2016, discussions were held concerning which of the released varieties to date were being adopted most widely and why.  Breeders are selecting 100 “Best Bet” Sweetpotato varieties for sub-Saharan Africa that will be prioritized for maintaining core …

Thirty Sweetpotato SpeedBreeders attended a workshop on the use of genomic and molecular tools in Nairobi’s ILRI campus. The workshop took place from 6th to 7th June, as a prelude to the 15th Sweetpotato Breeders and Genomics annual meeting.   The workshop was organized by the GT4SP project under the …

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 …

This presentation is on the need for an integrated database and its usefulness for a sweetpotato breeding community.

Sweetpotato Breeders from 12 African countries will meet in Colline Hotel, Mukono, Uganda between June 2-5 2015 for the this 14th Annual Sweetpotato Breeders’ Meeting.

This colorful presentation by Gorrettie Ssemakula and Benard Yada is on Development of High Yielding Multiple Resistant Sweetpotato Germplasm. The objectives of this presentation was to address the following; Meeting food needs –food security, Reduction of child malnutrition – improved health, Improving smallholder incomes – poverty reduction. 

This presentation titled Ethiopian sweetpotato improvement talks about ways of improving sweetpotato growth and usage in Ethiopia, and what constraints have been a hindrance to improvement.

This is a presentation on ‘Rwanda Sweetpotato Breeding Progress’ presented by Ndirigwe, Shumbusha, Muabyemungu and Kankundiye. The presentation was made during the SpeedBreeders and Genomics CoP annual meeting in Kigali, Rwanda 2013.