Innovation Marketplace Award Recipient:

Helen Keller International, the HarvestPlus Challenge Program and International Potato Center (CIP) for Eat Orange! This program targets sub-Saharan Africa, where 42 percent of children under age five are Vitamin A deficient, a condition that significantly increases risk of blindness and death. An active awareness-raising, educational and marketing campaign has led to expanded production of Vitamin A-rich orange-fleshed sweet potatoes and convinced more than 115,000 families in Burkina Faso, Mozambique and Niger of their nutritional value.

On stage left to right: Kathy Sierra, CGIAR Chair, Victoria Quinn (Helen Keller International) , Olivier Vebemba (Helen Keller International) and Ruth Haug (Norway)