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Status of sweetpotato in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
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PRES03: Status of Sweetpotato in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
WHAT’S IN A NAME Contest… Earn $300 for your great idea…
Frankly, everything… As part of its population development program, CIP in West Africa has been focused on developing sweetpotato varieties with little to no sugar. It goes without saying that consumers associated sweetpotato as a product that is sugary. In many countries, this is the reason cited by men saying …
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SPHI Photo Contest 2017
Entrants must be associated with a project aligned to the Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative (SPHI) A message to all amateur and professional photographers – here’s another chance to tear that hard drive open and share your amazing photographs for a chance to win $120 and make sweetpotato history. …
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Scientific Excellence and Innovation in Sweetpotato Award – Best Sweetpotato Scientific Paper – 2017 edition
Through a generous endowment established by Dr. Jan W. Low, every year the best sweetpotato scientific paper published during the year before will receive an award consisting of US$500, which will be presented to the lead author. The award is intended to be split among the co-authors. The main criteria …
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Presentation 3: SPHI indicators and data collection
This presentation, made during the 2017 MLE CoP annual meeting, presents the core SPHI indicators. It also highlights some of the difficulties faced in harmonizing data collection metrics and tools, and emphasizes how the development and implementation of the M&E manual is intended to address these difficulties.
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Early Generation Seed Production – Can public sector institutions and NARIs shift to a business orientation?
During this year’s annual Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative meeting in Ethiopia, we held a panel discussion with senior managers of institutions engaged in sweetpotato pre-basic seed production participated in our panel discussion. Here are three fascinating insights I gained from George Momanyi from the Kenya Plant Health Inspection Service (KEPHIS) and Stella Ennin from Crop Research Institute (CRI) Kumasi, Ghana.
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The 7th Annual Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative meeting takes place in Ethiopia
The 7th Annual Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative (SPHI took place from 7-8 October 2016 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The theme of this year’s meeting was ‘Celebrating the 2016 World Food Prize’. This theme honored four scientists – Dr. Howarth Bouis of HarvestPlus, and Drs. Jan Low, Maria Andrade and …
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7th Annual Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative 2016 Meeting
The 7th Annual Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative (SPHI) Technical Meeting and associated Project Advisory Committee (PAC) and SPHI Steering Committee (SSC) meetings will be held on 7-8th October 2016 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The SPHI meeting has been aligned with the 10th Triennial African Potato Association (APA) meeting …
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Rooting Out Hunger In Malawi With Nutritious Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato: Phase 1 Achievements (1st October 2009 to 30th April 2014)
By the end of the 4.5 year Phase 1 of the Rooting out Hunger in Malawi with Nutritious Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato (OFSP) project over 190,000 households received OFSP planting material through a multiple partner approach. OFSP is being fully integrated into the Scaling-Up Nutrition (SUN) effort to combat malnutrition at the …
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