What is required to scale-up and sustain biofortification? Achievements, challenges and lessons from scaling-up Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato in Sub-Sahara Africa

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cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Potato Centeren
cg.contributor.donorBill & Melinda Gates Foundationen
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africa
cg.creator.identifierGodfrey Mulongo: 0000-0001-8726-5404en
cg.creator.identifierHilda Munyua: 0000-0002-0570-1100en
cg.creator.identifierJoyce Maru: 0000-0003-2217-1065en
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafr.2021.100102en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn2666-1543en
cg.journalJournal of Agriculture and Food Researchen
cg.subject.cipBIOFORTIFICATIONen
cg.subject.cipFOOD SECURITYen
cg.subject.cipNUTRITIONen
cg.subject.cipNUTRITIONAL SECURITYen
cg.subject.cipSWEETPOTATOESen
cg.subject.cipSWEETPOTATO AGRI-FOOD SYSTEMSen
cg.volume4en
dc.contributor.authorMulongo, G.en
dc.contributor.authorMunyua, H.M.en
dc.contributor.authorMbabu, A.N.en
dc.contributor.authorMaru, J.en
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-28T23:24:49Zen
dc.date.available2021-09-28T23:24:49Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/115221
dc.titleWhat is required to scale-up and sustain biofortification? Achievements, challenges and lessons from scaling-up Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato in Sub-Sahara Africaen
dcterms.abstractThis review presents results of the ex-post survey on Reaching Agents of Change (RAC) project, highlightingexperiences, lessons, challenges and recommendations for scaling up orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP). TheRAC project was a three-and halfyear initiative (2011 and 2015), implemented in three primary countries, namelyTanzania, Mozambique, Nigeria, and to a lesser extent Ghana and Burkina Faso. The project advocated for policychange and increased investments to scale-up the orangefleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) to combat vitamin A defi-ciency. RAC planned to generate new investments totaling US$ 18 million for OFSP activities in the three years ofits life but exceeded this target by 20%. RAC further expected to benefit at least 600,000 households directly andis currently on track, having reached 309,974 direct beneficiaries (of whom 20.3% were women). The RACexperience demonstrated a potential scaling-up model for biofortified crops based on the hypothesis that scalingup can be achieved through supportive policies (and investments), strong institutional capacities and appropriateinnovative technologies working through a partnership of governmental and non-governmental organizations andcivil society.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMulongo, G., Munyua, H., Mbabu, A., & Maru, J. (2021). What is required to scale-up and sustain biofortification? Achievements, challenges and lessons from scaling-up Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato in Sub-Sahara Africa. Journal of Agriculture and Food Research. ISSN 2666-1543. 4, 100102.en
dcterms.issued2021-06en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherElsevieren
dcterms.subjectcapacity developmenten
dcterms.subjectsweet potatoesen
dcterms.subjectbiofortificationen
dcterms.subjectvitamin a deficiencyen
dcterms.subjectchildrenen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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