GROWING Nutritious Foods, GROWING Futures. Starting to work with two times more Growing Future Clubs while designing and implementing the innovative market linkage component.

Temesgen, B.B.; Gyan-Bassaw, P. 2024. Growing Nutritious Foods, Growing Futures: Progress update (September 2023-October 2024). International Potato Center.. 2024. Growing Nutritious Foods, Growing Futures: Progress update (September 2023-October 2024). International Potato Center.

Management complexity of the project increased as this period focused on the setting up of the innovative market linkage component and farming as a business training to serve 37 Cycle 1 Growing Futures Clubs (GFCs), while year 1 trainings and dissemination of the planting materials in the gender-transformative, climate-smart agriculture-nutrition-savings components of the two-year intervention for the 72 Cycle 2 GFCs took off. The 2024 agricultural season experienced more than 40 days of drought during July-August, affecting demonstration plots and reducing yields, but also highlighting the greater resilience of orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) compared to maize. Monitoring efforts indicate that the gender-transformative approach is positively influencing dietary behaviors and gender relations within many households.