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11/21/2011 Harvest Plus press release: “A study published in the British Journal of Nutrition indicates that orange sweet potato (OSP) is…

11/14/2011 Quick – what’s the first crop that comes to mind when you think about food from Peru? If you’re like…

11/6/2011 Potato production in Sub-Saharan Africa has more than doubled since 1994. Despite these gains, potato yields of small-scale farmers in…

10/20/2011 Today the potato is the fifth most important crop worldwide, after wheat, corn, rice and sugar cane. But in the…

10/10/2011 Movement of potato farmers up the Andes to escape the pests and diseases from a warming world will result in…

10/13/2011 In another step towards food security, Odisha has been included in International programme for Roots & Tuber Crops ( RTC)…

9/27/2011 The Root and Tuber Crops for Food Security in Asia-Pacific is a CIP project funded by IFAD, approved in December…

10/27/2011 Potatoes have come under much scrutiny over the years and have been linked with the nation’s growing obesity problem, but…

9/2/2011 Around 32% of children under five in Africa have such low levels of vitamin A that they are at huge…

9/22/2011 When 255 stakeholders spread across three continents were tasked with designing a research program (in two short months) with the…

8/31/2011 La mala fama de las patatas como alimentos que engordan debería ser revisada, así lo demuestra un estudio científico que…

8/30/2011 Nigeria and 13 other African countries will benefit from the `Sweet Potato for Profit and Health Initiative,’ being developed by…