Sweetpotato Knowledge Portal
Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative (SPHI)
The SPHI is a multi-partner, multi-donor initiative that seeks to reduce child malnutrition and improve smallholder incomes in 10 million African families by 2020 through the effective production and expanded use of sweetpotato.
The first five-year phase (2010-2014) focused on Proving the Potential, building up the supply of adapted varieties and testing delivery models. The second five-year phase (2015-2019) focuses on Achieving the Potential, ensuring that effective “seed” systems are delivering improved planting material to 10 million sub-Saharan African households in 17 countries.
The SPHI Steering Committee is committed to partnership for collective impact. The committee provides strategic guidance and undertakes high level advocacy and resource mobilization for the initiative. It is co-led by the International Potato Center (CIP), represented by Jan Low and Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), represented by Yemi Akinbamijo.
Dr. Jan Low Principal Scientist & Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative (SPHI) Leader Sweetpotato Action for Security and Health in Africa (SASHA) Project Manager International Potato Center (CIP) Box 25171 Nairobi, Kenya 00603 ILRI campus, Uthiru Phone: 254-20-422-3601
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2019 SPHI Brief 42. The accelerated value chain development program: orange fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) value chain in Kenya.Through contract farming, about 160 tons of OFSP roots worth USD 22,400 were produced in 2018. Fresh orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) roots were introduced to both urban and local markets through ...
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2019 SPHI Brief 41. Ghana's KNUST: Equipping the next generation of sweetpotato change maker.Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in collaboration with its partners is repositioning sweetpotato in Ghana’s food economy for health and wealth creation, making it an ent...
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2019 SPHI Brief 40. Scaling Triple S PLUS with gender responsive tools and diverse scaling partners.Triple S is currently being scaled in Ghana and Ethiopia by two scaling champions, using gender responsive tools and a scaling strategy developed with diverse partners. We used the theory of scalin...
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2019 SPHI Brief 39. Developing integrated value chains to enhance rural smallholders' incomes and food (DIVERSIFY) project-Malawi.The project has reached 3,000 households with Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato (OFSP) planting material, conducted value addition training and home-based food processing to 100 lead farmers who are conti...
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2019 SPHI Brief 38. Feed the Future Malawi improved seed systems and technologies (MISST) project: Orange-fleshed sweetpotato component.The project (December 2014-June 2019) enabled more than 63,000 households to produce and consume pro-vitamin A rich orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP). We have built the capacity of private sector, ...
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2019 SPHI Brief 37. Nutritious maize-OFSP porridge helps diversity diet in school feeding programme in Malawi.To date, the Root and Tuber Crops (RTC)Action project (2016-2021) has reached 50,000 beneficiary households. This year it piloted introducing orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) into eight primary sc...
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2019 SPHI Brief 35. Promoting OFSP for income, women's empowerment, and nutrition: Lessons from Helen Keller International's Programs in Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.The Healthy Lifestyle Project in Nigeria that started in January 2018 has worked to create awareness about the nutritional quality of Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato (OFSP), which has led to uptake of t...
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2019 SPHI Brief 34. Genomic tools for sweetpotato improvement project (GT4SP).We developed genomic and genetic resources for sweetpotato improvement, including genome sequencing and annotation of two diploid relatives, to be used as reference genomes for cultivated sweetpota...
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2019 SPHI Brief 33. Strengthening institutional systems for scaling up OFSP for improved nutrition and food security in Tigray and SNNPR, EthiopiaFrom July 2017 to May 2019, a total of 8.45 million orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) cuttings (1,317,500 in Tigray and 7,131,220 in Southern Nations Nationalities and People Region (SNNPR)) were d...
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2019 SPHI Brief 32. Viable Sweetpotato Technologies in Africa (VISTA) Mozambique delivered orange-fleshed sweetpotato at Scale.During the 5-year project period, 74,000 households (55% female-headed) received quality orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) planting material; 39% of them were able to sustain production of OFSP in ...
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2019 SPHI Brief 31. Moving ahead with the nutritious sweetpotato in Inhambane, Mozambique.From the lessons learned from previous activities in the Niassa province and recognizing that the agro-climatic conditions were completely different, the project started to implement field activiti...
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2019 SPHI Brief 30. HARVESTPLUS enhancing on-farm access to vitamin A sweetpotato pathogen-tested planting material in Uganda: Strategies for sustainable adoption.On-farm performance of sweetpotato pathogen-tested (PT) planting material has been reported giving over 80 percent yield increase, especially in sweet potato virus disease (SPVD) susceptible variet...
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2019 SPHI Brief 29. Scaling sweetpotato-led interventions to improve smallholders' nutrition and food security in Tigray Region, Ethiopia.1 million vines have been distributed to 1,072 households in Tigray region of Ethiopia. The capacity of extension service delivery partners (agriculture and health extension), model farmers, and wo...
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2019 SPHI Brief 28. Quality diets for better health in Ethiopia.Dry matter matters: New, locally adapted Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato varieties bolster food and nutrition security in SNNPR, Ethiopia.
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2019 SASHA Brief 25. The growth of the sweetpotato knowledge portal and social media as information hubs.Development and continuous improvement of a real time visual dashboard on the Sweetpotato Knowledge Portal (SPKP) is a tool for tracking progress. Integration of the online Sweetpotato Variety Cata...
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2019 SASHA Brief 24. Strengthening the SPHI community of practice: "A sweetpotato family, tremendously rewarding".Successfully held annual meetings for four technical community of practice (CoP) working groups over five, years with almost 1,000 participants (31% women) in total Sweetpotato for Profit and...
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2019 SASHA Brief 23. Food and nutritional evaluation laboratory (FANEL): Growth towards a sustainable service unit.Acquired and upgraded an Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectroscopy machine (ICP-OES) for mineral analysis, including an autosampler which enables high throughput analyses (Fig. 1). R...
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2019 SASHA Brief 22. Potential business models and financial feasibility of selected medium-scale business enterprises for orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) value-added products.Five potential and financially viable business models were examined for OFSP value-added products in the Kenyan context. These potential OFSP value-added products are cookies, cupcakes and mandazi ...
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2019 SASHA Brief 21. The development & utilization of a breakthrough product: orange-fleshed sweetpotato puree.Orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) purée can be used to substitute wheat flour by 25-60% depending on the product, without affecting the quality of baking procedures. We developed a safe, vacuum-pac...
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2019 SASHA Brief 20. Solar-powered storage in Mozambique: Lessons learned and way forward.Design, installation and testing of a solar-powered storage facility (Fig.1) was conducted over four months in Marracuene, Mozambique using fresh roots of four varieties. The percentage of marketab...
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2019 SASHA Brief 19. Strategies for storage of orange-fleshed sweetpotato in Sub-Saharan Africa to ensure supplies for processing: Lessons learnt and the way forward.Two evaporatively cooled stores (Fig.1) with the capacity to each hold 5 tonnes of sweetpotato roots were constructed in Kenya, one run on mains power and the other on solar. Using the evaporative ...
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2019 SASHA Brief 18. Rapid field based diagnostic tool for the detection of sweetpotato viruses is now a reality.Extensive testing of LAMP (Loop Mediated Isothermal Amplification) has shown a high sensitivity and specificity in detecting sweet potato feathery mottle virus (SPFMV), sweet potato chlorotic stunt...
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2019 SASHA Brief 17. Are begomoviruses a threat to sweetpotato production in Sub-Saharan Africa?Begomoviruses have progressively been reported to be infecting sweetpotatoes throughout the world. Despite showing few symptoms, limited studies have reported them to have a varying but significant...
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2019 SASHA Brief 16. Sweetpotato seed systems community of practice - what are we learning? What are we practicing?Nine consultations were held from April 2015 to May 2019, with participation from diverse actors in the seed system i.e. researchers from CIP and NARIs, NGOs implementing sweetpotato projects, regu...
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2019 SASHA Brief 15. Towards sustainable production of pre-basic seeds in Nigeria (2015-2019).Strengthened the capacity of national partners (National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI) and Bayero University(BUK)) to produce and manage high quality planting material of breeder, pre-basic...
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2019 SASHA Brief 14. What motivates vine multipliers to continue once project support has ended? A case study from the Lake Zone, Tanzania.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. 4...
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2019 SASHA Brief 13. Early generation seed production for roots, tubers and bananas is financially viable for private sector seed companies in East Africa.CIP conducted a financial feasibility study for a private seed company engaged in early generation seed (EGS) production for root, tuber and banana crops. The study showed that the business is fina...
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2019 SASHA Brief 12. A new method for estimating sweetpotato early generation seed requirements to supply commercial and institutional markets.A user-friendly tool to estimate the requirements for Early Generation Sweetpotato Seed (EGS) is now available for use by public sector seed producers. The method was first used in Uganda to estima...
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2019 SASHA Brief 11. Bridging the gap between pre-basic seed producers and decentralized multipliers for a sustainable sweetpotato seed system in Tanzania.A study was conducted to understand the economic sustainability of basic seed enterprises to bridge the gap between pre-basic seed producers and decentralized vine multipliers. Four commercial see...
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2019 SASHA Brief 10. Is sweetpotato root production cost-effective when using planting material conserved in protected structures in high virus pressure areas?Two methods of protected vine conservation beds (insect protected net tunnel (Fig. 1) and miniscreenhouse (Fig. 2)) were compared with an open field control to assess cost effectiveness for quality...
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2019 SASHA Brief 09. Efficiency of insect-proof net tunnels in reducing virus-related seed degeneration in sweetpotato.Affordable insect-proof net tunnels proved effective in reducing virus-related degeneration in sweetpotato in Tanzania. Re-infection in high virus pressure area was prevented for up to 20 months an...
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2019 SASHA Brief 08. Pre-basic sweetpotato vine multiplication using a sandponics system.A nutrient media for multiplying pre-basic sweetpotato vines under a sandponics system was optimized. The vine multiplication rate for pre-basic seed multiplication increased by 22% using sandponic...
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2019 SASHA Brief 07. 2019 Sweetpotato digital catalogue now available.The Sweetpotato Digital Catalogue (Fig. 1) presents a collection of the best performing sweetpotato varieties or “best bets” in Africa. Standardized information of 80 varieties in use in15 Sub-Saha...
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2019 SASHA Brief 06. Breeding for continuous storage root formation and bulking in sweetpotato.Research conducted on diverse sweetpotato germplasm showed that some genotypes form their roots at the same time, that are of the same maturity (discontinuous storage root formation and bulking) a...
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2019 SASHA Brief 05. Breeding and prospects for low sweet sweetpotato in West Africa.A trained sensory panel was developed to assist with breeding for sweetpotato quality preferences of consumers in West Africa. Lexicons of terms to precisely describe boiled and fried sweetpotato ...
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2019 SASHA Brief 04. Major achievements in breeding for drought tolerance and high iron orange-fleshed sweetpotato in Mozambique: Lessons learned and achievements in phase 2 (2014-2019)Successful second round of accelerated breeding completed, with the release of 4 orange-fleshed (OFSP) and 3 purple-fleshed (PFSP) drought tolerant sweetpotato varieties in 2016. Third round will b...
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2019 SASHA Brief 02. A breakthrough: Hybrid population breeding validated in Peru, Uganda, and MozambiqueDetermine the response to selection for yield and quality in three applied breeding populations for a complete reciprocal recurrent selection cycle for (i) OFSP wide adaptation and earliness, (ii) ...
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Presentation 11. Africa Food Supply Limited sixty seconds pitch
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Presentation 11. Using improved sweetpotato varieties to close yield gaps: An agronomic approach
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Presentation 11. Development of a sensory lexicon for describing boiled sweetpotato in Ghana
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Presentation 03. Have we successfully tackled the sweetpotato seed system bottleneck?
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Presentation 18. Best sweetpotato scientific paper of 2018- Jan W. Low award
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Presentation 17. Dr. Jan W. Low award for the best scientific sweetpotato paper of 2018
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Presentation 15. Can the integrated Ag-Nut approach be cost effectively scaled?
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Presentation 13. Orange fleshed sweet potatoes in tackling ‘hidden hunger in Sierra Leon
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Presentation 06. Sweetpotato yield estimation using Crop Cut Method in Malawi (2019)
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Presentation 02. Status of sweetpotato in Sub-Saharan Africa July 2018-June 2019
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Presentation 05. Update on the GT4SP genomic tools for sweetpotato improvement project
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Presentation 04. Gender responsive product profile development
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Presentation 03. Status of sweetpotato in Sub-Saharan Africa July 2018-June 2019
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2019 SASHA Brief 03. Tackling virus resistance in hot spots.Discriminated between resistant and tolerant cultivars in response to Sweet potato feathery mottle virus (SPFMV) and Sweetpotato chlorotic stunt virus (SPCSV). Dual infection by SPCSV and SPFMV cau...
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SASHA Brief 01. The sweetpotato breeding community of practice: Breeding in Africa for Africa (2009-2019).• A vibrant community of practice consisting of sweetpotato breeders from 16 African countries has been strengthened during the past 10 years, adopting modern breeding methods and releasing user-pr...
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Proceedings of the 9th Annual Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative (SPHI) MeetingOver 100 people from fourteen countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), as well as the USA, UK, Germany and Peru, convened in Nairobi, Kenya on 24 September to 27 September 2018, for the 9th Annual Sw...
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SASHA Brief 01: Breeding in Africa for AfricaIn 2017/2018, experimental results at CIP-Headquarters showed genetic gains for root yield of between 70% and 118% over the baseline breeding populations selected for wide adaptation, earliness, hi...
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PRESENTATION 43: Handling and Storage of Fresh Sweetpotato Roots
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PRESENTATION 42: Progress in Developing and Utilizing OFSP Puréeobjective is to develop appropriate production and storage methods for quality sweetpotato puree and ensure that products made from stored puree are safe and nutritious
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PRESENTATION 41: Lessons Learnt from Promoting Sweetpotato Commercialization in East Africa
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PRESENTATION 40: Scaling Sweetpotato Technologies in Tanzania for Improved Maternal Knowledge, Food Security and Dietary IntakesScaling SP Technologies in Tanzania for Improved Maternal Knowledge, Food Security and Dietary Intakes
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PRESENTATION 39: Experiences Promoting OFSP Alongside Other Crops: A case of Harvest Plus-Uganda
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PRESENTATION 38: Promoting OFSP alongside Potato and Cassava
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PRESENTATION 37: OFSP : Promoting OFSP Alongside Other Crops
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PRESENTATION 35: The Scaling Strategy for the Roots, Tubers and Banana Program
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PRESENTATION 34: Achievements and Lessons Learned from the Building Nutritious Food Baskets Project
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PRESENTATION 33: Scaling Up Sweetpotato Through Agriculture and Nutrition (SUSTAIN)
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PRESENTATION 32: Reaching the Next Generation: Getting OFSP Materials into Primary Schools
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PRESENTATION 31: Challenges and Opportunities OFSP Based Job Creation
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PRESENTATION 30: Engaging of Youth in Agriculture on the Continent: Current Policies
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PRESENTATION 29: Scaling Sweetpotato Triple S Plus: Deep-Dive Session
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PRESENTATION 28: Are we Ready for Scaling? Learning from Sweetpotato Triple S Plus
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PRESENTATION 26: Learning to Be an Effective Biofortification Advocate: Regional/National Policies
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PRESENTATION 25: learning to Be an Effective Biofortification Advocate: BNFB Champions Retreat Lagos Nigeria
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PRESENTATION 22: Learning to Be an Effective Biofortification Advocate: Communication for Advocacy
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PRESENTATION 21: Learning to Be an Effective Biofortification Advocate: Building Constituents, Partnerships & Allies
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PRESENTATION 20: Learning to Be an Effective Biofortification Advocate: Advocacy Fundamentals
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PRESENTATION 19: Food Safety Knowledge, Attitude and Hygiene Practices of Orange Fleshed Sweetpotato Puree Handlers in KenyaFood safety knowledge, attitude and hygiene practices of orange fleshed sweetpotato puree handlers in Kenya
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PRESENTATION 18: Awarding of the “Best Sweetpotato Scientific Paper” –2017 VersionEndowment established by Dr. Jan W. Low. It recognizes the best sweetpotato paper published during the year before The award consists of US$500, to be presented to the lead author and intended to b...
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PRESENTATION 17: Are Seed Regulations the Answer to Virus Management??
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PRESENTATION 16: Sweetpotato Begomoviruses: Are they Important
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PRESENTATION 14: Developing and Naming Low Sugar Sweetpotato
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PRESENTATION 13: Sweetpotato Breeding Progress in the Sahel
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PRESENTATION 12: Genetic Gains Using the Heterosis Exploiting Breeding SchemeEach sweetpotato clone is a highly heterozygous hybrid –so let us do better clone hybrid breeding
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PRESENTATION 11: Understanding Drought Tolerance: Top Five Performers in Mozambique and their CharacteristicsUnderstanding drought tolerance: Top five performers in Mozambique and their characteristics
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PRESENTATION 10: The Genomic Tools for Sweetpotato Improvement (GT4SP): Project UpdateDeveloping next generation breeding tools for SSA sweetpotato breeders
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PRESENTATION 09: Progress on Microbial Control of Sweetpotato Weevil in Sub-Saharan AfricaProgress on microbial control of sweetpotato weevil in sub-Saharan Africa
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PRESENTATION 08: Strategies for Strengthening the Institutionalization of the EGS Business by Public Institutions in SSAStrategies for strengthening the institutionalization of the EGS business by public institutions in SSA
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PRESENTATION 07: Scaling Sweetpotato Triple S Plus: What are we Learning Ethiopia and Ghana
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PRESENTATION 06: Participatory Evaluation of Performance of OFSP Varieties in Triple S
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PRESENTATION 05: Determinants for Traditional Vine Multiplication and Supply Under Different Farming Systems in Southern EthiopiaDeterminants for traditional vine multiplication and supply under different farming systems in southern Ethiopia
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PRESENTATION 04: Sweetpotato Seed Production in a Low Virus Pressure Rice Scheme: Win-win Through Rotation
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PRESENTATION 03: Returns to Vine Multiplication in Tanzania and Uganda and Implications for Scaling-Out Quality Planting MaterialReturns to vine multiplication in Tanzania and Uganda and implications for scaling-out quality planting material
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PRESENTATION 02: Status of Sweetpotato in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) 2017-2018 Update
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PRESENTATION 01: Integrating Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato into Government Policy & Creating an Enabling Environment in TanzaniaIntegrating orange-fleshed sweetpotato into government policy & creating an enabling environment in Tanzania
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Agenda for the 9th Annual SPHI Meeting9th Annual SPHI Technical Meeting, Annual SPHI Steering Committee Meeting and Annual SASHA Project Advisory Committee Meeting held at Concord Hotel Nairobi, Kenya
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SPHI Brief 45: Root and Tuber Crops for Agricultural Transformation in Malawi (RTC-Action Malawi)In 2018, with technical backstopping from International Potato Center (CIP), three new OFSP varieties were released in Malawi. These varieties are suitable for different agro-ecological zones of Ma...
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SPHI Brief 44: Ghana's KNUST: Creating an Entrepreneurial Hub for Young AfricansAs part of contribution to reposition sweetpotato in Ghana’s food economy for health and wealth creation, KNUST in collaboration with its partners, encouraged more students to partake in the 3rd Ed...
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SPHI Brief 43: Developing Integrated Value Chains to Enhance Rural Smallholders’ Incomes and Food (DIVERSIFY) Project-MalawiThe 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 ar...
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SPHI Brief 42: The Sweetpotatoes for Prosperity ProjectThe Sweetpotatoes for Prosperity Project has 720 small-scale orange-fleshed sweetpotato farmers in Teso, Uganda attracting domestic and international buyers.
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SPHI Brief 41: Helen Keller International(HKI) OFSP Update Africa RegionAcross six countries in Africa, HKI is working in partnership to support OFSP development, production, and consumption as part of an integrated nutrition-sensitive agriculture approach. We have ach...
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SPHI Brief 40: A Scaling Up Model for Multiple Biofortified Crops: the Building Nutritious Food Baskets ProjectThe Building Nutritious Food Baskets (BNFB) project has been testing biofortification scaling up model and the achievements so far demonstrate that effective scaling up is dependent on supportive p...
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SPHI Brief 39: New Genomic Tools for Sweetpotato Improvement (GT4SP) are Coming On-LineThe sweetpotato breeding and genomics community of practice can now boast of new genomics and advanced modern breeding tools. The GT4SP`s current polyploid analytic toolbox includes a pipeline for ...
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SPHI Brief 38: Strengthening Institutional Systems for Scaling up OFSP for Improved Nutrition and Food Security in Tigray and SNNPR, EthiopiaFrom July 2017 to June 2018, a total of 8.45 million orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) cuttings (1,317,500 in Tigray and 7,131,220 in Southern Nations Nationalities and People Region (SNNPR)) were ...
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SPHI Brief 37: Reaching Communities Through School Children – Students as Agents of ChangeThe International Potato Center (CIP) conducted studies in Nigeria and Ethiopia among school children to understand their response to information they receive about orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP...
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SPHI Brief 36: Malawian Consumers are Falling in Love with OFSP Mandazi!A recent study conducted by the project revealed that up to 40% of orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) puree can be used in the production of mandazi with even better sensory attributes than mandazi ...
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SPHI Brief 35: Introduction of Irrigation Technologies for Continuous Sweetpotato Seed Production and Supply in Southern EthiopiaTo assist Farmer Training Centers in SNNPR to become sustainable producers of quality sweetpotato planting material, investments in water harvesting and water lifting (solar pumps, rope and washer ...
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SPHI Brief 34: Quality Diets for Better Health (QDBH)Locally adapted Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato varieties, nutrition education and infant feeding tools are tested to address malnutrition in Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR), ...
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SPHI Brief 33: Partnering to Scale Biofortified Crops in UgandaUnder the USAID funded activity, “Meals for Nutrition: Biofortified Solutions”, a total of 82,800 farmers have been reached with orange sweetpotato vines and 176,079 farmers with high iron beans in...
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SPHI Brief 32: Emergency Response with Potato and Sweetpotato Among Drought-Affected Farmers in SNNPR, EthiopiaThe Emergency potato and sweetpotato seed support enabled farmers in the Southern Nations Nationalities and People’s Region (SNNPR) to restore the varieties they lost to a severe drought in 2015/20...
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SPHI Brief 31: Mitigating Impact of Droughts and Floods on Livelihoods in Mozambique Through Resilient, Nutritious SweetpotatoAbout 26,000 direct household beneficiaries have been reached by the project. Overall, this represents almost 108% more of the total 24,000 targeted project beneficiaries by December, 2018. 5,000 f...
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SPHI Brief 30: Viable Sweetpotato Technologies in Africa (VISTA) Tanzania ProjectIn 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 resulte...
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SPHI Brief 29: Viable Sweetpotato Techologies in Africa (VISTA) Mozambique23,000 farmers (50% females) received quality planting material from October 2017 to June 2018. During the same period, 22,765 children under five years of age and 16,371 women of reproductive age ...
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SPHI Brief 28: Learning from Nutritious Sweetpotato for Niassa and Applying Lessons to Inhambane, MozambiqueFrom July 2017, the project conducted an in-depth assessment to evaluate the impact of the project in Niassa and the lessons to be considered for the future. The Agricultural Director for the gover...
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SPHI Brief 27: OFSP Market Penetration in Maputo City, Mozambique: Eating OFSP by Choice not by ChanceThe dissemination of locally adapted orange-fl eshed sweetpotato (OFSP) varieties among producers combined with the development of market linkages ensures the breakthrough of OFSP on the fresh-root...
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SPHI Brief 26: Scaling Up Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato Through Agriculture and Nutrition (SUSTAIN)Over the past 5 years, the Scaling Up Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato through Agriculture and Nutrition (SUSTAIN) program has enabled more than 1.7 million farming households with children under 5 years...
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SPHI Brief 25: Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato is Gradually Becoming a Commercial Crop in Western KenyaAs the Accelerated Value Chain Development (AVCD) program completes the third and final year, strong linkages have been established between private buyers, processors, traders, commercial root farm...
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SPHI Brief 24: The Feed the Future Rwanda Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato (OFSP) for Income and Nutrition ActivityBy the end of the third year, the project has directly reached 207,267 households with OFSP and other 144,105 households indirectly in partnership with the Government of Rwanda and other partners. ...
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SPHI Brief 23: Scaling-Up Sweetpotato Through Agriculture and Nutrition (SUSTAIN) in RwandaAt the time of the project phase out of field activities in June 2017, we had reached 103,529 direct household beneficiaries. At the same time our collaborating partners reached 20,236 indirect hou...
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SPHI Brief 22: Ugandan School Children Contributing to the Health of their NationIn Uganda, between June 2015 and July 2018, the International Potato Center (CIP) worked with the National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) in the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) to dev...
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SASHA Brief 21: The Sweetpotato Community of Practice Focuses on Sharing Experiences and Promoting Product DevelopmentThe 8th Annual Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative (SPHI) Technical meeting was held in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, aligned with an Exhibition held at the Mlimani Mall
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SPHI Brief 20: Monitoring Decentralized Vine Multipliers as One Part of Improving Planting Material AccessThe Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative (SPHI) recognizes that to meet its target of reaching ten million households with improved varieties of sweetpotato by 2020, there is a need for a s...
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SPHI Brief 19: The DASHBOARD: Visual Monitoring of Progress Towards 10 Million Beneficiaries, Varieties Available, and Where to Get VinesThe Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative (SPHI) has already reached over 4.5 million beneficiaries with improved sweetpotato varieties in 15 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The dashb...
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SPHI Brief 18: Highly Interactive Data Analysis Platform (HIDAP): Advances in Collecting & Analyzing Breeding DataStandardized information on the performance of progenies and selected clones across environments is necessary to assist breeders to efficiently make decisions about selection and variety release. F...
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SASHA Brief 17: Progress in the Food and Nutritional Evaluation LaboratoryBreaking new ground with the acquired state of the art ICP for mineral analysis in SSA and an on-line workflow management system called FANEL-FLOW.
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SASHA Brief 16: Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato Puree Development & Utilization Continues to GrowConsumers find that OFSP bread made with shelf-stable puree is just as good as bread made with fresh puree. Shelf-storable puree (Fig. 1), even for limited periods of time, is expected to attract m...
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SASHA Brief 15: Solar-Powered Sweetpotato Fresh Root Storage: The Challenge ContinuesThe trial reported here builds on our previous trial which showed how solar-powered fresh orange-fleshed sweetpotato root storage could be used by a processor to smooth supply. After 4 months stora...
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SASHA Brief 14: Financial Feasibility of Sweetpotato Vine Multiplication in Uganda and Tanzania and Implications for Going-to-ScaleThe 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 a...
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SASHA Brief 13: Borlaug Fellowships Benefit Up and Coming SASHA Sweetpotato ResearchersDuring the past two years, three early career researchers from International Potato Center (CIP) affiliated with the Sweetpotato Action for Security and Health in Africa (SASHA) project have benefi...
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SASHA Brief 12: Strategies for Strengthening the Institutionalization of the Early Generation Seed (EGS) Business by Public Institutions in Sub-Saharan AfricaUsing a peer-to-peer assessment method, senior researchers have engaged since 2016 in developing strategies for strengthening the institutionalization of the Early Generation Seed (EGS) Business in...
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SASHA Brief 11: The “Missing Middle”- Linking Decentralized Vine Multipliers to Early Generation Seed Producers in UgandaIn Uganda, CIP is testing seed business enterprise models for medium-scale multiplication to provide the link between upstream sources of clean planting materials (pre-basic seed) and new varieties...
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SASHA Brief 10: Cost-effectiveness of Different Irrigation Approaches for Producing Sweetpotato Vines in Net Tunnels Compared to Open NurseriesThis study was conducted under researcher-management to compare different irrigation approaches for producing sweetpotato planting material in low-cost net tunnels and open nurseries. Preliminary r...
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SASHA Brief 09: Rice-Sweetpotato Rotation System: Improving Rice Yields and Profitability while Providing Sweetpotato Planting Material and Food in Irrigated Rice Schemes in Northern UgandaAfter three seasons, the overall results for the sweetpotato-rice rotation show that average root yields in the rotation treatment were significantly higher (average yield= 28 t ha-1) than in the c...
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SASHA Brief 08: Triple S PLUS is Ready for Scaling: Learning, Research, Impact ...TogetherIn 2017 the CGIAR Research Programme on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) Scaling Fund awarded funds to three innovations to foster their scaling. Triple S PLUS technology (Storage in Sand and Sprout...
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SASHA Brief 07: Simple, Sensitive Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) to Detect Key Viruses in the FieldMore than 20 viruses have been reported that can pose a major constraint to sweetpotato production. Current diagnostic tests available for sweetpotato viruses are either not sensitive enough to rel...
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SASHA Brief 06: Yield Impact of Sweetpotato Begomoviruses: Are They Significant?We established the occurrence and distribution of begomoviruses in Kenya. Field survey was conducted in major sweetpotato growing regions (i.e., Western, Nyanza, Coast, and Eastern). A total of 896...
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SASHA Brief 05: Making the Best Bets AccessibleExpected at the end of 2018, the best bet catalogue will present on the web and mobile based platforms a collection of the best performing sweetpotato varieties in Africa. In 2018, a collection of ...
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SASHA Brief 04: To Eat or Not to Eat the Peel of SweetpotatoResults of this experiment, clearly prove that it is best from a nutrition standpoint to carefully wash, but not peel your orange-fleshed sweetpotato root before cooking.
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SASHA Brief 03: Revolutionizing Sweetpotato Breeding Through Heterosis Exploiting Breeding Schemes - How Far are we?Exploitation of hybrid vigor is one of the hallmarks of modern plant and animal breeding, but until recently had not been seriously considered by root and tuber breeders. In sweetpotato breeding, w...
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SASHA Brief 02: Finding the Sweet Spot for Low-Sweet Sweetpotato in West AfricaThere are great opportunities to expand consumer demand for sweetpotato both as staple and fried products. In Ghana we are exploring consumer reactions to less sweet varieties, refining breeding me...
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Gender-sensitive Value Chain Intervention Improved Profit Efficiency among Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato Producers in RwandaThe Rwanda Super Foods project sought to develop a value chain for processed orange-fleshed sweetpotato products to respond to farmer concerns over lack of markets. This study used data collected f...
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Report of the 8th Annual Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative (SPHI) Technical MeetingThe 8th Annual Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative (SPHI) technical meeting took place from 24 - 26 September, 2017 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The theme of this year’s meeting was ‘Buildi...
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Protecting Sweetpotato Planting Material from Viruses using Insect Proof Net TunnelsOne of the major yield-limiting factors in sweetpotato production is the lack of clean planting material owing to infection by sweet potato virus disease (SPVD). Viruses are spread by insect vector...
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PRES03: Status of Sweetpotato in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)Status of sweetpotato in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
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Annual 2017 SPHI Meeting Participants ListThe 2017 Annual SPHI Meeting Participants List.
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AGENDA FOR THE 8th ANNUAL SPHI MEETING8th Annual SPHI Technical and Steering Committee Meeting held at the Ramada Resort, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Building Resilient Food Systems with Sweetpotato.
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SeFaMaCo Value Chain Development ProgrammeSeed-Farmer-Market-Consumer, SeFaMaCo is a commercialization and market access programme implemented by SeFaMaCo Consortium comprising of 8 partners; 7 sub-grantees and Farm Concern International, ...
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PRESENTATION 03: STATUS OF SWEETPOTATO IN SSA UPDATEStatus of sweetpotato in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
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PRESENTATION 04: The improved Sweetpotato Knowledge Portal
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PRESENTATION 05: Storage of fresh sweetpotato roots to reduce puree supply chain risksStorage of fresh sweetpotato roots to reduce puree supply chain risks.
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PRESENTATION 06: Achieving Affordable Shelf-Storable OFSP Purée without refrigerationAchieving affordable shelf-storable OFSP purée without refrigeration
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PRESENTATION 07: Getting Sweetpotato Processed Products MovingGetting sweetpotato processed products moving
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PRESENTATION 08: ABIDIN EXTENDING ACCESS TO SP ROOTS USING STEPPED PIT STORES AND SAND BOXESExtending access to sweetpotato roots using stepped pit stores and sand boxes
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PRESENTATION 09: Lessons learned from pilot market-led value chains in West Africa (Jumpstarting Project)
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PRESENTATION 10: Integrating Vine Survival & Sprouting Ability Into Breeding Programs
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PRESENTATION 11: Why Participatory Testing & Local Adaptation is ImportantTriple S - Why participatory testing and local adaptation is important
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PRESENTATION 12: Lessons learned from scaling the Triple S technology In UgandaLessons learned from scaling the Triple S technology in Uganda
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PRESENTATION 13: Understanding gender roles in sweetpotato value chains to design better interventions in EthiopiaUnderstanding gender roles in sweetpotato value chains to design better interventions in Ethiopia
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PRESENTATION 14: AWARDING OF THE BEST SWEETPOTATO SCIENTIFIC PAPER OF 2016Best OFSP-related scientific paper -Jan W. Low Endowment
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PRESENTATION 15: Rapid market assessment of sweetpotatoes in Tanzania: Positioning root entrepreneurs better in the value chainRapid market assessment of sweetpotatoes in Tanzania: Positioning root entrepreneurs better in the value chain.
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PRESENTATION 16: Fostering Change: Lessons from HKI’s work in nutrition-sensitive agriculture across four diverse African settingsLessons from HKI’s work in nutrition-sensitive agriculture across four diverse African settings.
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PRESENTATION 17: Getting Markets to work for Sweet potato in different regions: Experiences from SeFaMaCoGetting markets to work for Sweetpotato in different regions: Experiences from SeFaMaCo
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PRESENTATION 18: Triple S: Training Materials for ScalingTriple S: Training Materials for Scaling
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PRESENTATION 20: MUNGUTI BUSINESS PLAN FOR PRE-BASIC SEED AT KEPHISDeveloping, implementing and institutionalizing a sustainable business plan for pre-basic seed at KEPHIS
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PRESENTATION 21: KREUZE SPEEDING UP VIRUS REMOVAL CLONDIAG VS GRAFTINGClonDiag-arrays: A possible replacement of biological indexing for detecting sweetpotato viruses?
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PRESENTATION 22: THE NET TUNNEL TECHNOLOGY & THE LAUNCH OF A REVISED BROCHURELessons learned from scaling the net tunnel technology
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PRESENTATION 23: Making OFSP Go National in Close Collaboration With Government ExtensionMaking OFSP go national in close collaboration with government extension
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PRESENTATION 24: STRENGTHENING SEED & ROOT ENTREPRENEURS IN THE SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS OF TANZANIAStrengthening sweetpotato seed and root enterprises in the southern highlands of Tanzania
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PRESENTATION 25: Breeding for cold tolerance and dual purpose in the East African HighlandsBreeding for cold tolerance and dual purpose in the East African Highlands
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PRESENTATION 26: Building a Viable Export Market for OFSP in TanzaniaBuilding a viable export market for OFSP in Tanzania
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PRESENTATION 27: Measuring reach and higher level resultsMeasuring reach and higher level results.
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PRESENTATION 28: CAPTURING INFORMATION FROM PROJECTSCapturing key information for project.
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SASHA Brief 01: Breeding in Africa for Africa (Update)By July 2016, efforts at CIP-Headquarters in Peru to systematically exploit heterosis were well advanced with testing of hybrid progenies underway following a full cycle of reciprocal recurrent sel...
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SASHA Brief 02: Morphological and agronomic basis of vine survival in sweetpotato under drought prone areas of MozambiqueDrought is the most threatening factor to sweetpotato production in Mozambique. We have identified five released varieties which can give more than 10 sprouts per root after 3 to 4 months of storag...
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SASHA Brief 03: Weevil resistant sweetpotato through biotechnologyUnfortunately, weevils continue every year to damage about a quarter of the sweetpotato harvest in countries like Uganda and alter the quality and safety of storage roots. A long effort to express ...
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SASHA Brief 04: ClonDiag microarray- an efficient tool for diagnosis of multiple sweetpotato virusesThe ClonDiag diagnostic tool will facilitate the sustained availability of quality, disease-free planting material, at required quantities and in a timely fashion.
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SASHA Brief 05: TRIPLE S Storage in Sand and Sprouting - testing a scaling strategy in Western KenyaThe validation of the Triple S is nearing completion in western Kenya. Trials show that medium–sized roots stored in coarse sand for seven months produce viable planting material. There is a higher...
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SASHA Brief 06: TRIPLE S- why participatory testing and local adaptation is critical - learning from EthiopiaThe Triple S (Storage in Sand and Sprouting) method of sweetpotato planting material conservation has been validated in unimodal and bimodal rainfall areas in Ethiopia. In addition to ensuring a su...
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SASHA Brief 07: Analysis of cost structure and pricing strategy for sweetpotato Early Generation Seed – examining experiences from Kenya and GhanaPublic institutions in Kenya and Ghana are using real-time data collection methods to determine the exact costs of producing Early Generation Seed (EGS). This approach is informing pricing strategi...
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SASHA Brief 08: Assessing irrigation approaches for production of sweetpotato planting material in net tunnels and open fieldsThis study explored the importance of four factors in irrigated vine production. These were production in net tunnels and open plots, varietal differences, different water delivery systems and wate...
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SASHA Brief 09: Linking decentralized vine multipliers to early generation seed producersIn Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda, we are testing business enterprise models for medium-scale seed multiplication to provide the link between up-stream sources of clean seed and new varieties, and d...
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SASHA Brief 10: Rice-Sweetpotato Rotation - Agronomic Benefits and Profitability AnalysisJimmy Lamo, Rice Breeder at the National Agricultural Crop Resources Research Institute (NaCRRI), Uganda observed in an on-station trial, that the rice seed produced on a plot where sweetpotato had...
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SASHA Brief 11: Storage using evaporative coolingAs the consumption of delicious golden bread made with vitamin A rich orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) purée grows across Kenya, so too does the demand for an all-year-round supply of the fresh sw...
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SASHA Brief 12: Affordable Shelf-Storable PureeWe have succeeded in developing vacuum packed orange-fleshed sweetpotato puree using locally available safe preservatives that can store for three months at temperatures below 25 degrees celsius. W...
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SASHA Brief 13: Engaging Bakers to Utilize OFSP Puree for Bakery Applications in SSAIn 2017 a major supermarket expressed major interest in the commercialization of OFSP puree bread. In response, a training with 25 bakers from the supermarket chain was conducted followed by a succ...
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SASHA Brief 14: Engaging Students and National Fellows in OFSP value chain development in SSATwo doctoral candidates using Food and Nutrition Evaluation Laboratory (FANEL) facilities graduated and six master students are working on their thesis research. This year noted significant increas...
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SASHA Brief 16: The Highly Interactive Data Analysis PlatformHIDAP, a better tool than Clone Selector for breeders to design and manage their trials, has been launched in 2017.
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SPHI Brief 01: SUSTAIN RwandaThe project has set up 39 DVMs (46% male, 54% female). After four years, we have reached 102,038 beneficiaries in 8 districts with an adoption rate of 96% measured as those are still growing OFSP a...
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SPHI Brief 02: SUSTAIN KenyaBy the end of year 4, the project has reached 90% of its five-year direct beneficiary target, providing households with improved orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) planting material and nutrition ed...
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SPHI Brief 03: SUSTAIN MozambiqueA working smallholder based seed system supports the outscaling of OFSP in three provinces in Mozambique. After four years the project has exceeded all targets except for those related to value cha...
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SPHI Brief 04: SUSTAIN MalawiDuring the 2016/2017 season, 32,040 households received planting material. Out of these, 19,000 were reached with nutrition messaging. Nankhwali Farm in Mulanje continued to multiply and supply pla...
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SPHI Brief 05: Positioning Biofortification and HarvestPlus at National LevelUnder the USAID-funded project, Meals for Nutrition: Biofortified Solutions (MENU), HarvestPlus has reached a total of 10,358 farmers (8,912 females and 1,446 males) with orange sweetpotato vines i...
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SPHI Brief 06: HKI OFSP Update - Africa RegionAcross six countries in Africa, HKI is working in partnership to support orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) development, production, and consumption as part of an integrated nutrition-sensitive agri...
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SPHI Brief 06: HKI OFSP Update - Africa RegionAcross six countries in Africa, HKI is working in partnership to support orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) development, production, and consumption as part of an integrated nutrition-sensitive agri...
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SPHI Brief 07: The Genomic Tools for Sweetpotato Improvement (GT4SP) ProjectThe GT4SP project, launched in September 2014, is a four-year investment to develop genomic and genetic resources for sweetpotato improvement with the goal of establishing molecular marker-assisted...
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SPHI Brief 08: Building Nutritious Food BasketsThe Building Nutritious Food Baskets (BNFB) project completed the situation analysis reports and advocacy strategies and strengthened the capacity of 50 advocates and champions in Nigeria, Tanzania...
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SPHI Brief 09: Jumpstarting OFSP in West AfricaWe used various markets as entry points for developing value chains for orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) at pilot sites in Ghana, Nigeria and Burkina Faso. By the end of the project, farmers in ea...
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SPHI Brief 10: Ghana Health Service ApproachWe introduced the pro-vitamin A-rich orange fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) to the nutrition counselling program of the Ghana Health Service in the Northern and Upper East Regions of Ghana. In 2015 and ...
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SPHI Brief 11: School Feeding in Osun StateStarting in January 2015, orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) was included on the menu once a week at 8 schools in 8 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Osun State, Nigeria. In September 2015, the numbe...
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SPHI Brief 12: Training of Trainers course- status and visionUnder the “Jumpstarting Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato (OFSP) in West Africa through Diversified Markets” project, we used a training of trainers (ToT) approach to build capacity along value chains in ...
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SPHI Brief 13: Emergency response in EthiopiaThe Emergency potato and sweetpotato seed support enabled farmers in the Southern Nations Nationalities and People’s Region (SNNPR) to restore the varieties they lost to a severe drought in 2015/20...
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SPHI Brief 14: Scaling out sweetpotato-led interventions to improve nutrition and food security in Tigray and SNNPR, EthiopiaBy March 2017, the project distributed 16.6 million orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) cuttings directly reaching 34,500 households. Households producing OFSP for three consecutive years and consumi...
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SPHI Brief 15: EU Quality Diets for Better HealthEuropean Union finances new project addressing malnutrition in Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR), Ethiopia by combining orange-fleshed sweetpotato with innovative nutrition...
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SPHI Brief 16: Feed the Future Malawi Improved Seed Systems and Technologies ProjectAt the end of its third year, the project enabled over 48,000 households to produce and consume pro-vitamin A rich orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) varieties. We have built the capacity of private...
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SPHI Brief 17: Commercialization of Orange-fleshed sweetpotato products in MalawiThe international Potato Center (CIP) is promoting Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato (OFSP) production, consumption and marketing as an easily accessible source of vitamin A to tackle to vitamin A deficie...
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SPHI Brief 18: Africa RISING- Integrating Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato Scaling Out in Zambia with new varieties in pipelineIn 2016/17, 6,000 households received orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) planting material during the rainy season. Through radio adverts, over a million listeners were reached with OFSP nutrition, ...
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SPHI Brief 19: Viable Sweetpotato Technologies in Africa (VISTA) Tanzania projectDuring the past year, VISTA Tanzania completed and disseminated its formative gender evaluation study. The project provided 14,835 households with clean planting material and nutrition education co...
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SPHI Brief 21: Feed the Future Rwanda: Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato (OFSP) for Income and Nutrition ActivitySignificant investment in Rwanda’s agricultural sector has played an important role in the rapid and sustained economic growth which the nation has witnessed in recent years. This growth has benefi...
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SPHI Brief 22: Viable Sweetpotato Technologies in Africa (VISTA Project) MozambiqueIn 2017, 16,500 households received a total of 132 tons of disease free planting material. We trained 427 community health workers on improved child feeding practices and a better diet for mothers,...
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SPHI Brief 23: Emergency response in MozambiqueIn Mozambique, CIP and partners have been on the frontline for mitigating the effects of the recurrent floods and droughts. In the last two cropping seasons, most of the southern and central part o...
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SPHI Brief 24: Nutritious Sweetpotato for Niassa and Inhambane, MozambiqueNutritious Sweetpotato for Niassa expands into the Province of Inhambane in Mozambique. The project started a new one-year interim phase in January 2017 after successfully completing Phase 1. In Ni...
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SPHI Brief 25: Pig Feed Value Chains- Nutritious and affordable all year-round feed for pig farmersIn Uganda, researchers have finalized the supplementation strategy and the cost-benefit analysis for sweetpotato silage for pig production. This is expected to contribute to the transformation of t...
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SPHI Brief 26: Spotlight on sweetpotato in the context of roots, tubers and bananasThe CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) is an alliance led by the international Potato center implemented jointly with Bioversity international, the international center for t...
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SPHI Brief 27: The Sweetpotato Community of Practice Celebrates Science & Biofortification
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Triple S: SETTING UP YOUR SWEETPOTATO TRIPLE S SYSTEMA step-by-step guide on how to set up your Triple S system.
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Triple S: MONITORING, DE-SPROUTING AND PLANTING OUT YOUR TRIPLE S ROOTS
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Poster: Validating Heterosis in Sweetpotato BreedingWhy developing hybrid breeding populations?Sweetpotato is a highly heterozygous clone hybrid crop and with hybrid breeding populations we achieve (i) yield increase, (ii) ease to stack simple inher...
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Poster: Progress towards the holy grain of a virus resistant sweetpotatoSweetpotato is grown for food and feed and is increasingly becoming an important cash crop for many farmers in sub Saharan Africa. Sweetpotato virus disease (SPVD) is, however, one of the major bot...
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Poster: Screening South African sweet potato cultivars for resistance to root-knot nematodesPlant parasitic nematodes, especially Meloidogyne species are considered to be the most important nematodes affecting sweet potato production worldwide. In South Africa a 6% loss, South America 15%...
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Poster: Varietal selection in Madagascar & the use of OFSP for disaster responseEvery year, many regions in Madagascar are affected by floods, droughts, frost and locusts. They destroy many crops and increase food and nutrition insecurity. As part of climate-smart agriculture,...
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Poster: Progress in developing a low sweet sweetpotato for West AfricaThe signature focus of the Sweetpotato Support Platform for West Africa, in Ghana, is on quality, specifically developing low sweet varieties for staple, processing, and other uses.
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Poster: Building resilient food systems for Sub-Sahara Africa through genomics assisted breedingConventional breeding, is still dependent to a considerable extent on subjective evaluation and empirical selection. The process can be difficult, slow, influenced by the environment, and costly fo...
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Poster: Breeding and disseminating early maturing, vitamin A rich sweetpotato in Burkina FasoIn the Sudano-Sahelian zone like Burkina Faso, the rainy season is shorter with periods of drought of varying lengths, while the prevalence of acute malnutrition is over emergency thresholds. To co...
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Poster: HIDAP-A unified platform for clonal crops breedersBreeding programs involve large investments of time and money, but can pay very large returns on investment in the form of improved varieties which benefit farmers, societies and the environment. I...
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Poster: Progress in breeding in Rwanda: Incorporating Feedback from FarmersSweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.] is an important food crop in many parts of Africa, especially in Sub Saharan countries. In Rwanda, it is cultivated throughout the country and is especially ...
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Poster: From release to uptake: Emerging Stars among the Mozambican ReleasesPoverty and food insecurity are widespread and major causes of chronic undernutrition in Mozambique. Almost 70 % of the population live in abject poverty and ¾ of these people reside inruralareas.A...
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A time for celebration: Report of the 7th Annual Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative (SPHI) Meeting held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, October 7-8, 2016The 7th Annual Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative (SPHI) Technical Meeting took place from 7-8 October 2016 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The theme of this year’s meeting was ‘Celebrating the...
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Presentation: Genomics-Assisted Sweetpotato Improvement: Strengthening the Speedbreeders CoP
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Presentation: Lessons Learned Scaling-up Biofortified Crops
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Presentation: Genetic Engineering Weevil Resistance in Sweetpotato
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Presentation: Progress Towards Breeding for Sweetpotato Weevil Resistance in Uganda
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Presentation: Maria Andrade, World Food Prize Winner in Picture
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Presentation: Post-harvest Challenges in Sweetpotato - NRI partnership with CIP to support SASHA2
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Presentation: Progress in Developing Shelf-Storable Puree and Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato Bread Improvement
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Presentation: Panel Discussion - Lessons on Going to Scale with OFSP
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Presentation: Integrating Nutrition in Different Conditions in Kenya
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Presentation: Nutrition Model of VISTA Tanzania Project - Going to Scale with Nutrition Education
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Presentation: Integrating nutrition in agricultural projects - Experiences from Ethiopia
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Presentation: Scaling up Biofortified Crops through a “Food Basket” Approach in Nigeria and Tanzania
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Presentation: Integrating Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato into Enhanced Homestead Food Production
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Presentation: Jumpstarting Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato in West Africa Through Diversified Markets
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SPHI Brief 2016: Sweetpotato Greens: Nutritious partners deserving greater attentionSweetpotato leaves are a well-accepted, nutritious green vegetable in a number of countries around the world, but are underutilized and have limited or no economic value in many places where sweetp...
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SPHI Brief 2016: Combating hidden hunger through nutritious food basketsThe Building Nutritious Food Baskets (BNFB) project is testing a scaling up model through a multiple crops “food basket” approach, drawing on complementary CGIAR expertise for scaling up biofortifi...
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SPHI Brief 2016: Root and Tuber Crops for Agricultural Transformation in Malawi (RTC-Action) MalawiGiven the successful completion of CIP-led potato and sweetpotato projects financed by Irish Aid from 2007 through 2015, a new project has been designed that continues developing potato, orange-fle...
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SPHI Brief 2016: Nutritious and affordable sweetpotato based silage: the feed solution for small-scale pig farmersThis brief describes the objectives, approach and achievements of ongoing research to develop innovative business models to promote and commercialize sweetpotato silage in Uganda (June 2015 - July ...
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SPHI Brief 2016: HarvestPlus Uganda Counting the Gains: Accelerating Nutrition and Public Health with Biofortified CropsMicronutrient malnutrition is one of Uganda’s biggest health concerns. We want to contribute to the reduction of micronutrient malnutrition and improve dietary intakes of vitamin A and iron among 3...
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SPHI Brief 2016: The Genomic Tools for Sweetpotato Improvement (GT4SP) ProjectThis brief presents the activities and acheivements (2015-2016) of a four year investment to develop genomic and genetic resources for sweetpotato improvement that has been launched with the goal ...
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SPHI Brief 2016: Remote sensing as a monitoring tool for cropping area determination in smallholder agriculture in Tanzania and UgandaUnmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-based remote sensing technology is a game changer in the gathering of agricultural statistics data. Relatively low-cost platforms, coupled with high quality sensors a...
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SPHI Brief 2016: Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato on the Home Grown School Feeding Menu in Nigeria and GhanaSweetpotato for health and wealth in Nigeria and Jumpstarting OFSP in West Africa for diversified markets are two projects that out of the search for OFSP demand in the formal sector, conceived in...
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SPHI Brief 2016: Jumpstarting Orange- Fleshed Sweetpotato in West Africa through Diversified MarketsThis brief describes the objectives, activities, and progress made in implementing a three-year project that targets informal and formal orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) markets in Ghana, Nigeria ...
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SPHI Brief 2016: Africa Rising - Integrating Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato Scaling Out in ZambiaWith 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 diss...
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SPHI Brief 2016: Feed the Future Malawi Improved Seed Systems and Technologies Project (MISST)This project aims to provide 62,500 farmers with OFSP planting material. These farmers will gain hands-on experience with the cultivation of available varieties and knowledge on agronomic practices...
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SPHI Brief 2016: The Feed the Future Rwanda Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato for Income and Nutrition ActivityThe project, financed by USAID and implemented by the International Potato Center (CIP), is strengthening sector-wide human and institutional capacity for nutrition-sensitive and market-oriented ag...
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SPHI Brief 2016: Better Potato for a Better Life: Reducing Food Insecurity and Dependence on Cereals in Amhara Oromia, Tigray and SNNP regions of EthiopiaThis brief outlines the work done to achieve the goal of enhanced rural incomes, food security and nutrition in four regions of Ethiopia through resilient and profitable potato and swetpotato value...
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SPHI Brief 2016: OFSP Takes off as Part of the New Accelerated Value Chain Development Program in KenyaWhile the orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) has potential to contribute to reduction of vitamin A, and increased food security and income, its production in Western Kenya still remains marginal for...
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SPHI Brief 2016: Viable Sweetpotato Technologies in Africa (VISTA) Mozambique projectThe Viable Sweetpotato Technology in Africa (VISTA) aims to contribute to improved nutrition, food security and incomes among smallholder farming families through increased production and better ut...
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SPHI Brief 2016: Viable Sweetpotato Technologies in Africa (VISTA) Tanzania projectThis brief provides highlights of the activities and strategies employed by the VISTA project in Tanzania between July 2015 and June 2016. The overall goal of this 3 year project, is to contribute...
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SPHI Brief 2016: Prioritizing Sweetpotato in the Context of Roots, Tubers and BananasThe CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) brings together four CGIAR centers - Bioversity International, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), the Internatio...
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SPHI Brief 2016: Scaling out sweetpotato and potato-led interventions to improve nutrition and food security in Tigray and SNNPR, EthiopiaThis 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 Nation...
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SPHI Brief 2016: Nutritious Orange-Fleshed-Sweetpotato for Niassa, MozambiqueThe key aim of the ‘Nutritious Orange-Fleshed-Sweetpotato for Niassa, Mozambique' project, which began in November 2012, is to improve vitamin A and energy intake for at least 20,000 rural househol...
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SPHI Brief 2016: Updates from Helen Keller International's Efforts in OFSP DisseminationA multi-sectoral approach is key for large scale dissemination and adoption of orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) and harnessing its nutritional potential. This requires creating demand for OFSP b...
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SPHI Brief 2016: Scaling Up Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato Through Agriculture and Nutrition (SUSTAIN) in MozambiqueSUSTAIN is a 5-year partnership (2013-2018), coordinated by CIP and financed by the UK Department for International Development, to scale up the nutrition benefits of biofortified orange-fleshed sw...
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SPHI Brief 2016: Scaling Up Sweetpotato Through Agriculture and Nutrition (SUSTAIN) in MalawiThis flyer outlines the progress made towards achieving the objectives of the SUSTAIN project in Malawi from 2015 to 2016. SUSTAIN is a 5-year partnership (2013-2018), coordinated by CIP and financ...
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SPHI Brief 2016: Scaling Up Sweetpotato through Agriculture and Nutrition (SUSTAIN) in RwandaThe SUSTAIN project aims to reach at least 60,000 direct smallholder beneficiaries and 250,000 indirect beneficiaries in four districts in Rwanda by 2018 with improved varieties and appropriate nut...
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SPHI Brief 2016: Scaling Up Sweetpotato Through Agriculture and Nutrition in KenyaSUSTAIN is a 5-year partnership (2013-2018), coordinated by CIP and financed by the UK Department for International Development, to scale up the nutrition benefits of biofortified orange-fleshed sw...
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SASHA Brief 2016: The Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation Community of Practice embraces smartphones to support monitoring activitiesMonitoring data must be accurate and processed in a timely manner to be useful to project management. While different disciplines have already provided a significant amount of evidence regarding th...
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SASHA Brief 2016: The Marketing, Processing and Utilization Community of Practice pursues strategies to increase adoption of orange-fleshed sweetpotatoOrange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP), rich in beta-carotene, the precursor of vitamin A, is particularly being promoted due to its potential to address vitamin A deficiency. While many OFSP varieties ...
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SASHA Brief 2016: Seed Systems and Crop Management Community of Practice: Are Learning Journeys Useful?The purpose of the Sweetpotato Seed Systems and Crop Management Community of Practice (SSCM-CoP) is to facilitate networking, exchange of experiences and learning to generate new knowledge about ho...
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SASHA Brief 2016: Insights from the Relaunched Sweetpotato Knowledge PortalThe Sweetpotato Knowledge Portal was relaunched on 15 February 2016. It was converted into a user-friendly, single access point for discovery, acquisition and sharing of information about sweetpota...
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SASHA Brief 2016: Establishment of a Regional Reference Food and Nutrition Laboratory for Sub-Saharan Africa: The Food and Nutritional Evaluation Laboratory (FANEL)This flyer outlines the progress made by the new Food and Nutrition Evaluation Laboratory (FANEL) in 2015-2016. The laboratory was set up to increase regional capacity to carry out food science and...
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SASHA Brief 2016: Shelf-storable OFSP purée for bakery applications in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)Experience across many sub-Saharan (SSA) countries has shown that compared to using OFSP flour, it makes economic sense to use orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) purée (steamed and mashed) as a part...
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SASHA Brief 2016: The Soft Touch: How Postharvest Handling affects the Quality and Shelf-life of Sweetpotato RootsAcross Kenya, supermarket customers are now buying delicious golden bread made with vitamin A boosting orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) purée. To meet this demand, a year-round supply of fresh swe...
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SASHA Brief 2016: Keeping Disease-free Sweetpotato Vines closer to Farmers "Kinga Marando"The feasibility of using low cost net tunnels to produce disease-free sweetpotato planting material under farmer-multiplier management was assessed in Tanzania and Uganda. A total of 91 Decentraliz...
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SASHA Brief 2016: Keeping Disease-free Sweetpotato Vines closer to Farmers "Kinga Marando"The feasibility of using low cost net tunnels to produce disease-free sweetpotato planting material under farmer-multiplier management was assessed in Tanzania and Uganda. A total of 91 Decentraliz...
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SASHA Brief 2016: Improving Sweetpotato Virus DiagnosticsVirus infection, by a number of different types of viruses, is among the most important constraints of sweetpotato production globally and especially in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Among the more tha...
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SASHA Brief 2016: Is there a Business Case for Early Generation Seed?National Agricultural Research Institutes (NARIs) are hindered from delivering on their mandate for early generation seed (pre-basic) production by unreliable funding streams. Although many NARIs a...
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SASHA Brief 2016: Nurturing Innovations for Early Generation Seed ProductionProduction of high quality early generation sweetpotato seed is expensive. The process requires micro-propagation of pathogen tested tissue culture plantlets, which are then acclimatized and harden...
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SASHA Brief 2016: Weevil resistant sweetpotato through biotechnologyWeevils damage about a quarter of the sweetpotato harvest in Uganda and induce the accumulation of toxic compounds in the healthy-looking parts of damaged storage roots. We have introduced new gene...
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SASHA Brief 2016: Expanded and Sustained Uptake of the Accelerated Breeding Scheme (ABS) ApproachThe most important constraints to sweetpotato production in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are shortage of high quality planting material and lack of improved OFSP varieties. The conventional breeding ap...
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