Sweetpotato Knowledge Portal
ZARI is one of the beneficiaries of financial support through Sub-Grant Agreements (SGAs) to develop models for sustainable production of sweetpotato pre-basic seed by December 2018. This is a presentation of the institutions progress towards this goal.
Read More »SPHI Brief 2016: Africa Rising – Integrating Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato Scaling Out in Zambia
With funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), CIP, through Africa Rising/International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is scaling up scaling up the dissemination of the OFSP varieties and associated production technologies to reach 8,000 farming households in the Eastern Province of Zambia in the 2015/16 season. …
Read More »SPHI Brief 2013: Integrating Orange – for higher sweetpotato production in the Eastern province of Zambia
Sweetpotato is a critical food security crop in the Eastern province of Zambia. It supplements maize and cassava and serves as a stand-by when other staples fail due to drought or disease. This potential is compromised by lack of sufficient and timely access to disease free or ‘‘clean’’ planting material. …
Read More »SPHI Brief 2015: Integrating Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato in Zambia – Oct 2011- Sept 2015
This flyer is a summary of the objectives, achievements, lessons learnt and future plans of a four year project that aimed to improve vitamin A and energy intake for at least 15,000 rural households growing and consuming OFSP, of which 75% should be women with children under 5 years of …
Read More »SPHI Brief 2015: Rooting Out Hunger in Malawi Transitioning into a National Roots and Tuber development program
The Rooting Out Hunger project is implemented in in Chikwawa, Phalombe, and Zomba districts and is extending into neighboring Blantyre, Chiradzulu, Mwanza, and Nsanje districts; all located in Southern Malawi. The first phase focused on promoting the adoption and appropriate use of orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) as a food-based approach in …
Read More »Variation in micronutrient content of orange-fleshed sweetpotato varieties grown in different environments
Field experiments were conducted at three locations in Zambia to characterize 15 sweetpotato varieties for tuber yield and micro-nutrient content. Location and variety had significant effect on tuber yield. Marketable yield ranged from 5.22 – 9.69 t/ha with variety Kakamega recording the least yield. AMMI analysis also indicated significant effects …
Read More »SPHI Brief 2014: Integrating Orange-For better access to vitamin A rich sweetpotato in the Eastern Province of Zambia
In Zambia, sweetpotato (SP) is ranked after maize and cassava. SP supplements and or serves as stand-by incase of drought or disease attack to other crops. The orange fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) offers high Beta-carotene level with potential combat Vitamin A deficiency (VAD). This potential is compromised due to lack of sufficient and …
Read More »Presentation: Nutrition Enhancement through Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato
Nutritional enhancement through Orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) achieved successful diet diversity, vitamin A intakes increment, and reduced food insecurity in Eastern Province and parts of Central Province of Zambia. This is the main message presented.
Read More »Presentation: Breeding and promotion of sweetpotato genotypes for consumer preferred traits in time and space in Zambia
In this presentation by Martin Chiona, he talks about ways to develop and select high yielding sweetpotato varieties with consumer preferences including high dry matter and beta-carotene content.
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