Q&A with Maria Andrade: Breeding nutritious sweetpotatoes that farmers and families love
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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):…
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