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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 …

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 …

This presentation give an outline of different activities carried out in Rwanda with aim of developing commercial sweetpotato products. Through these activities, repositioning of both white and orange fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) within rural, urban and semi urban markets was achieved. Some of most important steps include development of quality clean …

The Rwanda Sweetpotato Super Foods Project is assessing the relative efficiency of sweetpotato product value chains and their potential to increase farmer income, especially for women farmers who dominate sweetpotato production in Rwanda. Income wise, there were greater benefits from personal plots than group plots, but women saw groups as …

Rwanda is among highest producers of sweetpotato in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Despite this huge production, market chains are poorly developed; and roots are bulky and costly to transport long distances searching for markets. Processing of sweetpotato into products offers the opportunity to increase demand for the crop and create value-addition, …

The Rwanda super food project was started to develop, compare and evaluate efficiency of sweetpotato products value chain. Further, to re-position white and orange fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) while increasing their potential to raise farmer income in the rural, urban and semi-urban consumer markets. This presentation, documents the informal seed systems …