In the Lake Zone, Tanzania, between 2009-2012, 88 decentralized vine multipliers (DVMs) were established by the Marando Bora project. Five years later, the follow up study traced 81 of the DVMs. 40% of the DVMs had sold planting material of Marando Bora varieties in the last year; a further 16% …
Read More »PRESENTATION 40: Scaling Sweetpotato Technologies in Tanzania for Improved Maternal Knowledge, Food Security and Dietary Intakes
Scaling SP Technologies in Tanzania for Improved Maternal Knowledge, Food Security and Dietary Intakes
Read More »PRESENTATION 03: Returns to Vine Multiplication in Tanzania and Uganda and Implications for Scaling-Out Quality Planting Material
Returns to vine multiplication in Tanzania and Uganda and implications for scaling-out quality planting material
Read More »PRESENTATION 01: Integrating Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato into Government Policy & Creating an Enabling Environment in Tanzania
Integrating orange-fleshed sweetpotato into government policy & creating an enabling environment in Tanzania
Read More »SPHI Brief 30: Viable Sweetpotato Technologies in Africa (VISTA) Tanzania Project
In it’s final year (2017), VISTA Tanzania conducted an endline survey to assess the impact of its interventions. Evidence from this impact assessment indicated that VISTA–Tanzania generally resulted in increased production and consumption of nutritious OFSP; significantly increased caregiver knowledge on vitamin A, nutrition, health-seeking, and childcare; and significantly improved …
Read More »SASHA Brief 14: Financial Feasibility of Sweetpotato Vine Multiplication in Uganda and Tanzania and Implications for Going-to-Scale
The development of an economically feasible and sustainable vine multiplication models and vine distribution channels is critical for obtaining high sweetpotato yields. A study was done in Uganda and Tanzania in early 2018 to identify, one, which of the vine multiplication models in use is the most financially viable; and …
Read More »A Study of Household Food security and Adoption of Biofortified Crop Varieties in Tanzania: The Case of Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato
Food insecurity has become a key issue in the field of development in recent years with major inadequate intake of vitamin A-rich foods. Specifically, vitamin A deficiency (VAD) remains a major health problem among poor developing-country households, especially in Africa. Efforts to combat VAD currently focuses on food-based approach that …
Read More »PRESENTATION 02: Breeding for Resilience for Different Food Systems in Tanzania & Implications for the East African region
PRESENTATION 15: Rapid market assessment of sweetpotatoes in Tanzania: Positioning root entrepreneurs better in the value chain
Rapid market assessment of sweetpotatoes in Tanzania: Positioning root entrepreneurs better in the value chain.
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