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RTB Potato Scaling Fund Project Completion Report: Scaling up and Adoption of Potato in Africa through Combining Market-driven, Climate Resilient, Novel Potato Varieties and Seed Systems Innovation
The International Potato Center and partner institutions through the scaling fund project endorsed the use of rooted apical cuttings (RAC) as a rapid seed multiplication technique to accelerate the scaling up and adoption ...
2019 Annual Technical Report on 'Addressing Vitamin A Deficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa through Musa-based foods
2019 Annual Technical Report on 'Addressing Vitamin A Deficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa through Musa-based foods.
Commercialization of Sweetpotato based silage: can women entrepreneurs compete favorably?
Sweetpotato silage production has been proven to be a viable business, which women and men entrepreneurs can engage in, more so considering that women are already engaged in sweetpotato root production and piggery. Aside ...
Baseline survey of orange-fleshed sweet potato knowledge, farming and consumption, and dietary practices among households with children aged 6-59 months in selected districts of Morogoro, Iringa and Mbeya regions of Tanzania
Orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) as a staple food besides providing necessary body energy in human diet
provides significant amounts of Vitamin A addressing both Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) and body energy
needs. The Viable ...
Nomination of Cassava Variety, Poundable (TMEB693), for Registration and Release for Fresh Roots Markets in Nigeria
The variety presented here for registration and release would serve as a replacement for older poundable or ‘boil and eat’ varieties, now out of cultivation, but persistently requested for by consumers and growers. We ...
Impact of improved cassava varieties in Nigeria
This report answers the following key research question: Does adoption of improved cassava varieties have any significant causal effects on productivity and poverty? The results of this project showed that about 60% of the ...
Genetic Gains by Region Published in SASHA II Final Report
The 5-year (July 2014–October 2019) Sweetpotato Action for Security and Health in Africa Phase 2 project (SASHA2) has succeeded in almost all its objectives centered on resolving the major bottlenecks for fully exploiting ...
Cassava Market Update and short-term outlook
The regional cassava market has experience a rapid recovery from the low prices of 2016-17 in the last 12 months. By the second half of 2017 a supply shortage became apparent and prices rapidly increased, with starch price ...
More fruit for food security: developing climate-smart bananas for the African Great Lakes region
To support this research, we rely on Bioversity International’s Musa Germplasm Transit Centre (ITC), hosted at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) in Leuven that houses germplasm samples representing more than ...
Nomination for Registration and Release of Four Multipurpose Cassava Varieties for Food Security (HOPE and BABA-70) and Industry (GAME CHANGER and OBASANJO-2) product profiles in Nigeria
NextGen Cassava project at NRCRI and IITA was the development of product profiles for cassava varieties and this includes varieties that address gari and fufu markets, boiled/poundable cassava, biofortified cassava and ...