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SMART FOOD ESA retweeted
#SmartFood featured by The Indigenous Show. Aimed at bringing #AfricanFood to the world stage, the series promotes local produce - #millets and #sorghum in everyday diet
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@SmartFoodESA @SmartFoodIndia @SmartfoodWCA @cwgathecha @AgatheDiama @JoannaKP
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#SmartFood Market research funded by DFAT, undertaken by ICRISAT, tested the acceptability of nutricereals in #Tanzania. #Pigeonpea, #Fingermillet & #Sorghum showed high acceptance among School students of Babati & Kondoa dist.
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SMART FOOD ESA retweeted
A study showed that when prepared in culturally sensitive ways, @SmartFoodGlobal excited consumers and were significantly more nutritious.
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@ICRISAT and #SmartFood executive council member - @CORAFNews are among the 119 organizations shaking up the Food System in 2019 listed by @foodtank
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@IcrisatW @ICRISATESA @SmartFoodIndia @SmartFoodESA @SmartfoodWCA @JoannaKP
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Researchers develop disease-resistant #climatesmartgrains to help eradicate #poverty in #Africa
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@ICRISAT @SmartFoodESA @SmartFoodGlobal @FAO @JoannaKP
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@jai_amma writes on #smartfood women of #Kenya sing a nutritious tune
How do you switch back to more #nutritious and #climatesmartfood? Making it fun can help
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@ICRISAT @RPGeneticGains @coeingenomics @CGIARgender @ICRISATESA @IcrisatW @SmartFoodGlobal @FAO
SMART FOOD ESA retweeted
"I prepare dishes like Pilau & Chapati using sorghum. People tell me that I do not age, I tell them it's the result of eating traditional food like millet, pigeonpea..” Phyllis Nduva, 65 Yr old farmer, Kenya.
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SMART FOOD ESA retweeted
Chef Anto talked about the Smart Food campaign by ICRISAT on #Radio rance Internationale (RFI) on 30 Oct 2018. #Chef Anto (second right) in RFI studio tasting sorghum crackers at the end of the show. #Smartfood #sorghum @SmartFoodESA @SmartFoodIndia @AgatheDiama @IcrisatW
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The #AVCD project has worked with food engineers to develop smart food products for commercialization. These products include cakes and pastries made from #sorghum and #millet @ICRISAT @SmartFoodESA @SOMNIPROJECT
SMART FOOD ESA retweeted
Over 6000 small holder farmers have been linked to buyers by the #AVCD program in the six mandate counties. The project has been working with aggregators in Kenya and has established a total of 38 aggregation centers
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Benson Kyalo a fish farmer uses #sorghum grain as the raw material for making fish feed for the Catfish and Tilapia that he rears on his farm in Makueni County. He believes using sorghum improves profit margins due to lower feed production costs.
SMART FOOD ESA retweeted
#DYK Striga is a parasitic weed that constrains the growth of cereals in the sub humid areas of Africa. The weed can be managed by hand pulling, weeding on time, inter-cropping with legumes like groundnuts, use of herbicide 2-4 D,field sanitation and deep ploughing.
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#Tanzania A variety of products from #sorghum and #millet developed by SME's sensitized by the project team are already selling in the Tanzania market! @AfricaHarvestKe @SmartFoodESA
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Here’s a small clip of @JoannaKP of @ICRISAT in conversation with India’s celebrity Chef @ranveerbrar about @SmartFoodGlobal xitter.cf/smartfoodindia/status/… #millets @SmartFoodESA
SMART FOOD ESA retweeted
In #India, 59% of children under 5 and 54% of pregnant women are anemic, while 38% of children in the same age group are stunted. #Biofortification is a cost-effective, sustainable solution to this #nutrition challenge: bit.ly/2r1pxwK
SMART FOOD ESA retweeted
#AVCD program distributed improved seed of #drought tolerant crops to over 100,000 farmers in Kenya. The seed includes #sorghum, #fingermillet, #groundnuts, #greengrams, and #pigeonpea
SMART FOOD ESA retweeted
#AVCD has introduced new products in the Kenyan market. These products were developed in collaboration with Makerere University.The objective is to stimulate commercialization of #sorghum and #millets products in a bid to create market opportunities for dryland farmers @ICRISAT
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Mwendatu Farmer group and @AfricaHarvestKe team establishing SOMNI trial plots at Njuthine Village, Mwanganthia Ward.
