The International Potato Center (CIP) has helped build robust evidence to demonstrate that pro-vitamin A rich, Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato (OFSP) can combat vitamin A deficiency in children.
Sweetpotato farmers in Kabondo, Western Kenya produce over 60% of the sweetpotatoes consumed in the country. Yet, a major problem for them is the availability of sufficient and high quality planting material during the sweetpotato planting season.
It was a learning experience; that’s the only way to describe the 9th Triennial African Potato Association conference. There was information on everything (and anything) you could want to know about potatoes and sweetpotatoes, in Africa and beyond. S…
The extensive role of CIP in fomenting this Trans-Pacific partnership recently became evident when journalist and writer Patricia Castro Obando published a book titled Apasionados por el Peru (Passionate for Peru) that highlights Chinese people who hav…
We met with a happy community in western Kenya, where the Mama SASHA project encourages mothers to get the health care they need and increase consumption of the orange-fleshed sweetpotato, a nutritional powerhouse thanks to its beta-carotene content.
