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The Fungus That Conquered Europe - New York Times
Nice article on the Irish potato famine....should check out this guy's book on the history of the potato.
Spudzillas give rivals a roasting - Scotland on Sunday
Hondurans find a market for sweet potatos in the UK
Priorities for Sweetpotato Research in Developing Countries: Results of a Survey -- Fuglie 42 (5): 1200 -- HortScience
This kind of information would be useful to GCP and other projects that assess the constraints to agricultural production....I could not get this article because my service does not include this journal....If anyone gets the PDF, please send me a copy.
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The needs that scored highest in all or most of the major sweetpotato producing areas in developing countries are: i) control of viruses (through varietal resistance, quality planting material, and crop management); ii) small-enterprise development for sweetpotato processing; iii) improvement in availability and quality of sweetpotato planting material; and iv) improved cultivars exhibiting high and stable yield potential.
Dietary Supplement Fact Sheet: Vitamin A and Carotenoids
This is a very informative FACT SHEET on Vitamin A...
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Angola -- Favorable food security outlook
Good harvests of cassava, bean and sweet potato in Angola led to positive food security outlook for most of the country. But note the threat of cassava mosaic virus in the northern provinces
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Angola is currently food secure, owing to a combination of regular availability of food reserves from previous harvests, recent harvests of cassava, sweet potato and beans as well as on target levels of food imports
African Crop Improvement Website
This site has good information for networking related to African crops....
Sweet Potato Cuttings Technology
An article about a humidifier for promoting sweet potato transplantation
Bioenergy pact between Europe and Africa
General article on the potential for Sweet Potato
Burkina Faso: Eating Orange Fights Vitamin A Deficiency and Poverty
This is a program to disseminate orange fleshed sweet potato in Burkina
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