- From
-
Published on
25.01.21
- Impact Area
Orange-fleshed sweetpotato breeder and World Food Prize winner Dr. Maria Isabel Andrade loves sweetpotato and embraces the challenge to develop climate-resilient varieties to help smallholder farmers around the world. Recently, she sat down with CIP communication specialist Vivian Atakos to talk about her work. Q: What do you love most about sweetpotato? Maria Andrade (MA):…
The post Q&A with Maria Andrade: Breeding nutritious sweetpotatoes that farmers and families love appeared first on International Potato Center.
Related news
-
Ponds of Promise: Unlocking Mandla’s Farm Ponds for Food and Livelihood Security
29.09.25-
Adaptation
-
Biodiversity
-
Environmental health
-
Environmental health & biodiversity
-
Food security
-
Nutrition
-
Poverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
Ponds as a Lifeline in Mandla Mandla, in central India, is a land of contrasts,…
Read more -
-
Regenerative Agriculture for Healthy Diets and Resilient Food Systems: Better Diets and Nutrition@Stockholm Forum 2025
26.09.25-
Environmental health
-
Food security
-
Health
-
Nutrition
-
Nutrition, health & food security
At Stockholm Food Forum 2025, a side event will spotlight how regenerative agriculture, and agroec…
Read more -
-
Breakthrough Discovery Offers Hope Against Devastating Groundnut Disease
24.09.25-
Food security
-
Nutrition
A major scientific breakthrough from the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tr…
Read more -