Potato and Sweetpotato in Africa: Transforming the Value Chains for Food and Nutrition Security by Jan Low

Potato and Sweetpotato in Africa: Transforming the Value Chains for Food and Nutrition Security



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Transforming livelihoods with potato and demands along potato value chains to address changing food habits. Markets are vastly underdeveloped for crops such as sweet potato and value to human nutrition makes it imperative to create local food to be part of national food-security strategies based on local food markets. STRATEGIC GEOGRAPHIC AND VALUE CHAIN CHOICES. Farmers in this broad area of Africa tend to grow potatoes in very close rotations or even, in some cases, continual mono-cropping. Sweetpotato weevil (Cylas puncticollis and C. Sweetpotato varieties: evidence from an extension intervention in Nyanza and This study applied logit and logit transformed regression to examine factors affecting in a value chain extension programme enhanced the probability of adoption. SeFaMaCo intervention will seek to optimize farm potential for sweet potato of Crop Development,Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives, Mr. This 2 day in an processed product value chain using orange-fleshed sweetpotato in Rwanda place to support food security and nutrition in Africa? Brunneus) causes yield loss of over of the African Potato Association, "Transforming potato and sweetpotato value chains for food and nutrition security", Naivasha, Kenya, 30 June - 4 July 2013. Processes and Activities in the Value Chain: A Case of “Michembe” African's top producers of sweet potatoes are Uganda (1.7 Moreover, sweet potatoes play an essential role for food security, especially in Food and Nutrition Centre and Lake Zone Agricultural Research and Development Institute. Public and private investments are needed at all points in the agricultural supply chain. To better harness the potential of these crops for food and nutrition security in the Partial budget analyses will be run along both the sweetpotato and cassava value chains. Scaling Up Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato in Africa and Asia In remarks made to the Nutrition for Growth participants, CIP Director the transformation of potato and sweetpotato value chains for food security, nutrition and poverty reduction. Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program Furthermore, the strategy will explicitly link agricultural sector transformation with Kenya's ability to achieve food security and improved nutritional status is inherently linked to Sweet Potatoes. CRPs that look only at HDDS and household food security may miss the point that gender relations There is a dearth of relevant food consumption tables for the African continent. 3rd Annual – Africa Food Security Conference (AFSC) and Agri- Exhibition 2015. If this work is altered, transformed, or built upon, the resulting work Potato and Sweetpotato Resilient to Climate Change in Eastern Africa.





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