Emergency Response with Potato and Sweetpotato among drought-affected farmers in SNNPR, Ethiopia

The Emergency potato and sweetpotato seed support enabled farmers in the Southern Nations Nationalities and People’s Region (SNNPR) to restore the varieties they lost to a severe drought in 2015/2016, improving their household food and nutrition security. In one year, 9,779 farmers got sweetpotato....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: International Potato Center
Format: Brief
Language:Inglés
Published: 2017
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145363
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Summary:The Emergency potato and sweetpotato seed support enabled farmers in the Southern Nations Nationalities and People’s Region (SNNPR) to restore the varieties they lost to a severe drought in 2015/2016, improving their household food and nutrition security. In one year, 9,779 farmers got sweetpotato. cuttings and 23,594 were trained on sweetpotato agronomy and nutrition