The Health Benefits of Sweet vs. Regular Potatoes
04/08/2015 Both regular potatoes and sweet potatoes deserve a place in your diet. You can eat both as part of a…
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Potato/sweet potato to improve Pacific food security
04/01/2015 Suva, Fji – Almost 70 new varieties of potato and sweetpotato will soon be available to Pacific Island countries and…
Complementary potato conservation in the Parque de la Papa
04/01/2015 I was in South America for the past couple of weeks, which is why blogging has been, well, slow. One…
Surinder Sud: In search of the right potato
03/23/2015 The production of good quality potato seeds has been posing many problems. However, the aeroponics technique of growing plants in…
Ibarra será sede del Congreso Nacional de la Papa
03/20/2015 El 8 y 9 de julio de 2015 se realizará la sexta edición del Congreso Nacional de la Papa. La…
Tanzania edge closer to approving seed standards for sweetpotato, potato and cassava
03/19/2015 A Quality Declared Planting Material certification process in Tanzania will ensure seed producers are giving farmers quality planting materials and…
Better lives with sweetpotatoes
03/18/2015 A nutritious sweet potato variety is growing in popularity and becoming an important strategy to improve vitamin A deficiency across…
Sweetpotato: a special food security crop for health and wealth
03/17/2015 The story is told of Nalongo Sekiguce, a widow and mother of 16 children, who lives in a hillside village…
Kofi Annan promotes consumption of sweetpotatoes
03/16/2015 A former United Nations Secretary-General, Mr Kofi Annan, and his wife, Nane, are collaborating with the International Potato Centre (CIP)…
Local farmers can be part of global food security system – Kofi Annan
03/16/2015 Kofi Annan championed the establishment of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) with the objective of catalyzing…
Veep holds discussions with CGIAR
03/12/2015 A delegation from the CGIAR Consortium, an international organisation that advances international agricultural research for food security, yesterday held discussions…
Ghana to benefit from malnutrition reduction programme
03/11/2015 The International Potato Centre has announced a programme to reduce malnutrition among pregnant women and children in 500,000 households in…