Nigeria is Africa’s wealthiest, most populous nation, and its fastest-growing economy. Despite these indicators, more than half of the country lives below the poverty line, and northern Nigeria suffers the world’s third highest level of chronic undernutrition among children.
Orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) represents a potent weapon to address many nutrition problems facing the nation, given the crop’s quick maturation, high per unit area useful biomass output, and high nutrition density, especially for vitamin A.
The International Potato Center (CIP) organized a webinar on May 7, 2020 bringing together OFSP experts and champions who discussed the importance of OFSP in the Nigerian context, including the opportunities it represents for the youth, farmers, traders, processors, and policy makers.
Through the DDBIO project, CIP aims to address vitamin A deficiency and control its negative long-term impacts on Nigerian productivity and well-being by enhancing the production and consumption of OFSP for children under 5 years, adolescent girls, and women of childbearing age who live in distressed communities.
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