If we awarded prizes for the most outstanding crops on World Food Day, cassava should be among the top contenders.


If we awarded prizes for the most outstanding crops on World Food Day, cassava should be among the top contenders.
From 2007-2009, HarvestPlus and its partners disseminated orange-fleshed sweet potato to more than 24,000 households in Mozambique and Uganda to see if we could reduce vitamin A deficiency—through food. This publication presents the results for Mozam…
HarvestPlus Director on what we must do “if we are to race, not inch, towards the finish line of significantly improving nutrition by the next Olympic Games.”
From 2007-2009, HarvestPlus and its partners disseminated orange-fleshed sweet potato to more than 24,000 households in Mozambique and Uganda to see if we could reduce Vitamin A deficiency—through food…

Washington D.C., August 8, 2012: A study published today in the Journal of Nutrition provides conclusive evidence that orange sweet potato (OSP) provided significant amounts of vitamin A to malnourished Ugandan children and women and that a modest impr…