How Uganda's school children became the keepers of the vine
Nov 07, 2018
3 minutes
Joan Nabadda’s school days in Kitagobwa are filled with reading, writing, and sweet potatoes.
The 7th-grader is one of 11,200 students in Uganda being trained as evangelists for improved strains of kipaapali, as the orange-fleshed tubers are known locally.
The sweet potato has always been an important crop in Uganda. The East African nation is the leading producer of sweet potatoes in Africa and second to China in the world. In recent years however,
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