Project:

Rooting out Hunger in Malawi with OFSP

In Malawi, the 4.5 year Rooting out Hunger Project, supported by Irish Aid, is part of the Sweetpotato for Profit and Health Initiative.

Galleries

• Building a Sustainable Sweetpotato Seed System and Linking to Scaling-Up Nutrition Effort in Malawi
• Year 3 Midterm Report "Rooting out Hunger in Malawi with Nutritious Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato submitted to Irish Aid in July 2012
• Orange-fleshed sweetpotato in the national newspaper of Malawi
• Annual Report 2009/2010
• Mid-year Report 2010/2011
• Presentation at Wageningen University in The Netherlands - May 2011
• Progress after 2 years of implementing the project in Malawi
• Unleashing Agriculture's Potential for Improved Nutrition and Health in Malawi - 26 to 27 Sep 2011, IFPRI Conference Report
• Annual Report - Year 2 (1st Oct 2010-31st Oct 2011)
• Presentation at IFPRI conference on 27 Sep 2011
• Sweetpotato Production and Seed System Management in Malawi
• Year 3 Annual Report: Rooting out Hunger in Malawi (1st Nov 2011 to 31st Oct 2012
• Annex 1 -Yr 3 Annual Report: CU - Dedza Report
• Annex 3 - Yr 3 Annual Report: CU Mobi+lise Report
• Annex 4 - Yr 3 Annual Report: CADECOM
• Annex 6 - Yr 3 Annual Report: MVP
• Annex 7 - Yr 3 Annual Report: An Evidence of Knowledge Transferred
• Annex 8 - Yr 3 Annual Report: Full paper submitted to ISTRC Symposium in Nigeria in Sep 2012
• Project Proposal - Yr 4 and its supplement of final 6 months
• Full set of Counseling card - Scaling up Nutrition (SUN) - Malawi

More information

 

• - Improve vitamin A and energy intake for at least 70,000 vulnerable rural households in Central and Southern using OFSP based approaches
• - Ensure that at least 20% of households growing OFSP earn at least US $100 per year from OFSP sales
• - Increase average sweetpotato yields by 50%