Rooting out hunger

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International Food Policy Research Institute 2012. Rooting out hunger. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153950

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From 2007 to 2009, HarvestPlus and its partners disseminated orange sweet potato (OSP) to more than 24,000 households in Mozambique and Uganda to see if we could reduce vitamin A deficiency—through food. All the results are now out, and the evidence makes a strong case for scaling up OSP in Africa.

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