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SPHI Brief 43: Developing Integrated Value Chains to Enhance Rural Smallholders’ Incomes and Food (DIVERSIFY) Project-Malawi

james muriithi October 17, 2018 Comments Off on SPHI Brief 43: Developing Integrated Value Chains to Enhance Rural Smallholders’ Incomes and Food (DIVERSIFY) Project-Malawi

The project has reached 3,000 household farmers with orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) planting material, conducted value addition training and home-based food processing to 100 lead farmers who are continuing to reach beneficiaries.

Rapid Market Assessment: Viable Sweetpotato Technologies – VISTA

Sarah Mayanja February 12, 2018 Comments Off on Rapid Market Assessment: Viable Sweetpotato Technologies – VISTA

A rapid market assessment was conducted to assess the commercial potential of Orange Fleshed Sweetpotato (OFSP) in 14 markets located in seven districts in Tanzania. The study sought to estimate the demand and supply, consumption trends and perceptions about OFSP with an aim of designing strategies to position OFSP producers …

PRESENTATION 09: Lessons learned from pilot market-led value chains in West Africa (Jumpstarting Project)

Eric Muthuri October 13, 2017 Comments Off on PRESENTATION 09: Lessons learned from pilot market-led value chains in West Africa (Jumpstarting Project)

PRESENTATION 13: Understanding gender roles in sweetpotato value chains to design better interventions in Ethiopia

Eric Muthuri October 13, 2017 Comments Off on PRESENTATION 13: Understanding gender roles in sweetpotato value chains to design better interventions in Ethiopia

Understanding gender roles in sweetpotato value chains to design better interventions in Ethiopia

Presentation 23: Message to MPU CoP from the MLE CoP

Christine Bukania March 31, 2017 Comments Off on Presentation 23: Message to MPU CoP from the MLE CoP

This presentation made at the 2017 Marketing, Processing and Utilization CoP meeting highlights the areas where the COP can collaborate with the Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation CoP to improve the sweetpotato value chain in SSA.

Presentation 13: Lessons learnt on OFSP value chain development in SSA, and opportunities for scaling up

Christine Bukania March 31, 2017 Comments Off on Presentation 13: Lessons learnt on OFSP value chain development in SSA, and opportunities for scaling up

Tawanda Muzhingi1, and Antonio Magnaghi2 Food and Nutritional Evaluation Laboratory (FANEL), Nutrition Platform at the Biosciences for east and central Africa (BecA), ILRI Hub, CIP-SSA Regional Office, Old Naivasha Road, Nairobi, Kenya. muzhingi@cgiar.org +254718608534 Euro-Ingredients Limited, Corner Commercial and Enterprise Avenue, Industrial area, Nairobi, Kenya. antonio@euroingredients.net Background: Orange …

Using quantitative tools to measure gender differences within value chains

Lilies Gachanja November 7, 2016 Comments Off on Using quantitative tools to measure gender differences within value chains

This last chapter of the book by Lucia Madrigal and Maximo Torero, covers the use of quantitative tools to measure gender differences within value chains. The chapter begins by begging the question, why is qualitative analysis needed and what can it do? It then analyses the quantitative tools to help understand …

SPHI Brief 2016: Scaling out sweetpotato and potato-led interventions to improve nutrition and food security in Tigray and SNNPR, Ethiopia

Christine Bukania October 26, 2016 Comments Off on SPHI Brief 2016: Scaling out sweetpotato and potato-led interventions to improve nutrition and food security in Tigray and SNNPR, Ethiopia

This is a brief of the ‘Scaling out sweetpotato and potato-led interventions to improve nutrition and food security in Tigray and SNNPR’ project, which is being implemented in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR) and the Tigray region in the north of Ethiopia. At present, the project covers …

Report: Proceedings of the Marketing, Processing and Utilization Community of Practice (MPU CoP) Meeting held in Kunduchi Beach Hotel, Dar-es-Salaam. March 14-16 2016.

Simon Mutunge May 24, 2016 Comments Off on Report: Proceedings of the Marketing, Processing and Utilization Community of Practice (MPU CoP) Meeting held in Kunduchi Beach Hotel, Dar-es-Salaam. March 14-16 2016.

The Marketing, Processing and Utilization Community of Practice (CoP) met on 14 and 16 March 2016 in Kunduchi Beach Hotel, Dar es Salaam. The CoP brings together professionals working on all levels of the sweetpotato value chain, as well as private sector players who are innovating processing and utilization of …

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