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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 ...
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 ...
Orange-fleshed sweet potato an alternative for small-scale farmers trapped under Maize Poverty and climate variability
The project employs participatory approaches to draw scenarios for land use, institutional arrangements, and devising technologies for improving productivity and ecosystem health. Maize is a main staple food crop in 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 ...
Adoption study of sweetpotato varieties in Malawi: DNA Fingerprinting Activity
Sweetpotato varietal identification is key for understanding the real impact of the CIP interventions in different African countries where most of the investment to reduce poverty and malnutrition has taken place. International ...
PRA: Pest risk analysis for Fusarium oxysporium f. sp. Cubense
PRA: Pest risk analysis for Fusarium oxysporium f. sp. Cubense.
OFSP Hybrid 1 Population for Wide Adaptation & Earliness
The strategy for exploiting heterosis in sweetpotato breeding was validated in 3 distinct populations in Peru and in Uganda and Mozambique.