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Datasets for: Monitoring Data for Viable Sweetpotato Technologies in Africa (VISTA)Tanzania

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Title Datasets for: Monitoring Data for Viable Sweetpotato Technologies in Africa (VISTA)Tanzania
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.21223/P3/3NGJLV
 
Creator Grant, Frederick
Kakuhenzire, Rogers
Okuku, Haile
Mwenda, Meshack
Heck, Simon
 
Publisher International Potato Center
 
Description The International Potato Center (CIP) and its partners in Tanzania proposed Viable Sweetpotato Technologies in Africa (VISTA) Tanzania project, which had been designed to expand the production and utilization of nutritious orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) into seven districts in Mbeya, Iringa and Morogoro Regions. These regions were part of USAID’s Feed the Future (FtF) zones of influence. The purpose was to extend the production, consumption & marketing of orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) products among 21,000 smallholder farmers and 20 medium size farmers in seven districts within the FtF zones of influence. Of these 17,500 farmers and caregivers were expected to participate in a full integrated agriculture-nutrition package. Twenty–eight entrepreneurs were to be supported to become financially viable sweetpotato seed and root enterprises. It was anticipated that around 102,000 sweetpotato farmers were to be reached indirectly with planting material. VISTA Tanzania pursued four specific objectives:
a. Increased production and consumption of nutritious OFSP varieties through an Integrated Agriculture-Nutrition Technology Set
b. Improved nutrition knowledge and practices.
c. Root producers & traders utilize improved storage and marketing of fresh OFSP roots.
d. Enhanced human & organization capacity for scaling up OFSP
 
Subject Social Sciences
Monitoring
Sweetpotatoes
Vitamin A (Retinol)
Agricultural Practices
Health services
Technology Transfer
Tanzania
 
Language English
 
Date 2017-12
 
Contributor Okuku, Haile Selassie
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB)
International Potato Center
 
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