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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 ...
Men and women were interacted for introducing potato in the system
A meeting was organized with 35 farmers of Maan Sagar to apprise them of the project on cultivating potato in their exiting cropping to generated more income to improve their livelihood. Women from farming families were ...
Report on Capacity Development of Community Nutrition Scholars in Bangladesh
to enhance nutritional awareness and inclusion of OFSP on everyday diet on the project working areas CIP initiates to select some educated (at least have 10th grade education), interested community women as a Community ...
Scaling Up Sustainable Land Management and Restoration of Degraded Land
With current rates of land degradation reaching
ten to twelve million ha per year, there is an
urgent need to scale up and out successful,
profitable and resource-efficient sustainable
land management practices to maintain ...
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 ...
Piloting the G+ customer and product profile tools for gender-responsive cassava breeding in Nigeria
The G+ tools developed by the CGIAR Crosscutting Research program, ‘Roots Tubers and Bananas’ through the Gender and Breeding Initiative provide a first attempt in streamlining a systematic social/gender inclusive customer ...
Drought tolerant CIP clone introduced in All India Coordinated Research Project after testing at Mansagar (Jodhpur project site)
The present work consists of a proforma for introducing culture into Aicrp,