Institutional Learning and Change Initiative

Integrated Crop Management and Value Chain Improvement for Sweetpotato Livelihoods in Central Luzon, Philippines - Users’ Perspectives With Agricultural Research and Development (UPWARD)

Project Objectives

• To develop and field-test appropriate practices in sweetpotato: a) disease-pest-soil management, b) production and use of healthy planting materials, c) conservation and use of diversity, and d) value-added utilization and marketing.
• To enhance capacity of farming households for managing innovations in sweetpotato livelihoods through participatory group learning.
• To strengthen institutional support to sweetpotato research and development.

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Case study members:
Dindo Campilan, International Potato Center (CIP)
Julieta Roa, UPWARD Network
Lorna Sister, UPWARD Network

Photos credit: (1) Farmers' learn value-adding practices to enhance their access to sweetpotato markets; (2) Researchers from partner organizations develop and adopt common methodologies in germplasm characterization; (3) Project introduces community-based nethouses as field-base learning labs on producing healthy planting materials by Dindo Campilan, UPWARD