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Nutrition
Food Biofortification: Reaping the Benefits of Science to Overcome Hidden Hunger: A Paper in the Series on the Need for Agricultural Innovations to Sustainably Feed the World by 2050
NigeriaHOWARTH E. BOUIS, EKIN BIROL, ERICK BOY, BRYAN GAN...

Biofortification is a process of increasing the density of minerals and vitamins in a food crop through conventional plant breeding, genetic engineering, or agronomic practices (primarily use of fertilizers and foliar sprays). Biofortified staple foo...

Marketing and Trade
Quarterly Market Report for Selected Legumes, Roots, Tubers, and Other Cereals, October to December 2021
MalawiIFPRI

This quarterly market report was developed by researchers at IFPRI Malawi with the goal of providing clear and accurate information on the variation of weekly and monthly retail prices of selected agricultural commodities that are important for food...

Nutrition
Vitamin A Intakes Remain Higher Among Intervention Participants Three Years After A Aiofortification Intervention In Mozambique
MozambiqueALAN DE BRAUW, MOURAD MOURSI AND BERNARDINO MUNHAU...

The Reaching End Users (REU) project introduced orange sweet potatoes (OSP) to farmers in northern Mozambique between 2006 and 2009, and the associated cluster randomised control trial found increased vitamin A intake among targeted children and wome...

Nutrition
Bargaining Power, Decision Making, And Biofortification: The Role Of Gender In Adoption Of Orange Sweet Potato In Uganda
UgandaDANIEL O. GILLIGAN, NEHA KUMAR, SCOTT MCNIVEN, J....

We examine the role of gender dimensions of intrahousehold bargaining power and decision making in the adoption and diffusion of orange sweet potato (OSP), a biofortified crop being promoted to increase dietary intakes of vitamin A in Uganda. We use...

Marketing and Trade
Nigeria Can Earn N1trn From Cassava Exports, but it is Falling Behind -PIND
NigeriaArinze Nwafor

Nigeria has the potential to generate $427.3 million from domestic value-addition and earn N1 trillion ($2.98 billion) from agricultural exports of cassava per annum, Executive Director of the Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta...

Research and Development
Farming Practices and Crop Varietal Choice among Ugandan Bean and Sweet Potato Producers
UgandaCatherine Larochelle, Ricardo Labarta, Enid Katung...

The common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, and white- or yellow-fleshed sweet potatoes, Ipomoea batatas, are widely grown in Uganda as both food and cash crops. Beans and sweet potatoes are common staples in Uganda, providing hearty, affordable nourishm...

Nutrition
Cassava: A Staple Crop in Nigeria
NigeriaSahel Consulting Agriculture & Nutrition

Cassava is a staple of choice across cultures and social divides in Nigerian households. The majority of the tuber produced is consumed locally as traditional meals. It is the most important crop by production, and the second most important by consum...

Research and Development
Yam Improvement For Processing (YIP) Nigeria
NigeriaSahel Consulting Agriculture & Nutrition

From December 2013 to March 2014, Sahel Capital Partners & Advisory completed a study of the yam value chain in Nigeria with a focus on processing activities in order to identify robust and sustainable intervention strategies to accelerate yam proces...

Research and Development
Understanding Farmer Needs and Unlocking Local Genetic Resources for Potato Improvement: A Case Study in Ethiopia
EthiopiaSemagn Asredie Kolech, Walter De Jong, Donald Hals...

Understanding farmers’ needs and local genetic resources are crucial steps to improve and conserve the potato crop. A study was conducted to understand what potato traits Ethiopian farmers consider most important, and to characterize the div...

Research and Development
West African Yam Food Technologies: Prospects and Impediments to Change
Felix I. Nweke

Yam is an important commodity for more than 350 million people in West Africa because of its food, monetary and cultural values. The commodity is expensive compared with alternative starchy staples such as maize and cassava because of low technolo...

Research and Development
Gap Analysis of Cassava Sector in Cameroon
CameroonStephanie Mvodo

Cassava is one of the top five crops in Cameroon. Its evolution has remained constant since the independence period and the production has more than tripled. It is a crop with multiple industrial capacities but the sector’s business opportunities are...

The prevalence of badnaviruses in West African yams (Dioscorea cayenensis-rotundata) and evidence of endogenous pararetrovirus sequences in their genomes
Seal, S. Turaki, A. Muller, E. Kumar, P.L. Kenyon,...

Yam (Dioscorea spp.) is an important vegetatively-propagated staple crop in West Africa. Viruses arepervasive in yam worldwide, decreasing growth and yield, as well as hindering the international move-ment of germplasm. Badnaviruses have been reporte...

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