Ensuring supply and creating demand for a biofortified crop with a visible trait: Lessons learned from the introduction of orange-fleshed sweet potato in drought-prone areas of Mozambique
Background. Orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) is a promising biofortified crop for sub-Saharan Africa because it has high levels of provitamin A carotenoids, the formed vitamin A is bioavailable, and white-fleshed sweet potato is already widely grown. Objectives. To examine whether farmers will ado...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | Inglés |
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SAGE Publications
2007
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/171857 |
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