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Farming needs 'climate-smart' revolution, says report
- Major changes are needed in agriculture and food consumption around the world if future generations are to be adequately fed, a major report warns.
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A Clarion Call on the Food Supply
- Underlying the price jump is a tight balance between supply and demand, and it has come to a head at a time when people are becoming more aware of the challenges that climate change will pose to food production.
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World Scientists Define United Approach to Tackling Food Insecurity
- Report offers roadmap for action by global leaders to create a sustainable food system
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Swansong of an influential project
- One of Latin America's longest running and most innovative projects has marked its completion by publishing a book about its experience.
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Environmentally Sustainable Smallholder Agriculture is Possible
- The panellists gave excellent examples of sustainable approaches that are working, and in many cases being scaled up. Pamela Anderson of the CGIAR-affiliated International Potato Center explained how a new multi-functional smallholder agriculture provides a range of livelihood opportunities within households and communities, giving smallholders a “portfolio” of income opportunities, and spreading their risk.
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Native potatoes get a clean start from repatriated in-vitro seedlings
- Traditional potato farming practices in the Andes that once provided in situ conservation of the vast diversity of native varieties have been waning over the past decades. Roads now bring in truckloads of rice, pasta and other sources of convenient carbohydrates to these once remote villages 4,000 meters above sea level.
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NSF Provides Additional $5.9 Million to Support Five New BREAD Program Projects
- Projects will use innovative approaches to advance basic research on key problems involving small farmer agriculture in the developing world
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Gates Calls Attention to Hunger
- “We get a strong response on health issues,” he said by telephone. “But when we show a farmer getting better sweet potatoes that are more nutritious, the response is even stronger.”
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Researchers Outline Food Security-Climate Change Road Map in Science
- While last month’s climate negotiations in Durban made incremental progress toward helping farmers adapt to climate change and reduce agriculture’s climate footprint, a group of international agriculture experts, writing in the January 20 issue of Science magazine, urges scientists to lay the groundwork for more decisive action on global food security in environmental negotiations in 2012.
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New Potatoes Varieties Spell Prosperity for Tanzania Farmers…..Maybe
- A recent case study by the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) showcases a new effort to produce high quality “seed” potatoes for farmers in Tanzania. Better seed and more modern varieties, experts say, could spark dramatic increases in production not only in Tanzania but possibly throughout Eastern and Southern Africa.
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Pueblos andinos reciben ejemplares de tubérculos nativos
- El Parque de la Papa, una iniciativa de conservación de seis comunidades quechua-hablantes del Cusco, en el suroriente peruano, recibió aproximadamente medio millar de ejemplares in vitro de raíces y tubérculos andinos libres de patógenos para restablecer y mantener la reserva genética de sus cultivos.
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Regional efforts to promote vitamin A-rich potato stepped up
- The orange-fleshed sweet potato is now a big source of nutrition and income for farmers who add value to it by making cakes, doughnuts, biscuits, juice and porridge. Regional scientists are rooting for the growing of the crop because it has multiple uses as it is consumed in its entirety; the leaves, shoots and roots.
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Lima-based CIP to launch grand scheme to tap potato potential
- The bright prospects for utilising potato in the reduction of poverty and malnutrition have been on the rise with the gradual increase in the harvest of the crop-food item in the country over the past years, experts said on Sunday.
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A sweet potato a day...
- A helping of an orange coloured sweet potato just twice a week could save lives in Mozambique. This is no ordinary sweet potato - it has been bred to have a high beta-carotene content, a compound rich in vitamin A, which is found naturally in the root, hence the more intense orange colour. The human body is unable to synthesise vitamin A and has to obtain it from external sources.
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Sweet Potato, Sweet Success
- "Mama Sasha": A program integrating nutrition education and distribution of orange-fleshed sweet potato vines within prenatal care is reaching target audiences at unexpectedly high rates – boosting both health and agricultural impacts.
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Interview with CIP scientist Steff de Haan in VPRO radio (in Dutch)
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Ecuadorian Firm Cooks a Gourmet Snack for U.S. Market
- Martín Acosta isn’t looking to take over the $7 billion U.S. market for potato chips. He’s just aiming for the slice of the U.S. market represented by the “elite group” of snackers who he is sure will be enticed by his chips from Ecuador.
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Preserving the Genetic Riches of the Sweet Potato - Forever
- Sweet potato, one of the world's most important and versatile food crops, is consumed widely in many African countries. Farmers produce about 12 million tons of sweet potatoes annually in Africa alone, where the vegetable is a staple food in much of Nigeria, Uganda and Tanzania.
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Sweet Potato Gets Funding
- Two research centers have announced funding for scientists to study the Thanksgiving staple
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Orange Sweet Potato Reduces Risk of Vitamin A Deficiency among Children and Women in Mozambique
- Harvest Plus press release: "A study published in the British Journal of Nutrition indicates that orange sweet potato (OSP) is effective in providing vitamin A to "malnourished women and children in Mozambique, where the prevalence of vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is very high.
