Project Info
Principal Investigators
Pedro C. Vicente
Rute Martins Caeiro
Field Coordination
Rute Martins Caeiro
Funding
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Managing Institutions
NOVAFRICA
VIDA
About this Project
A collaborative effort with Voluntariado Internacional para o Desenvolvimento Africano (VIDA)
Vitamin A deficiency is still a widespread public problem in Sub-Saharan Africa. In collaboration with the Portuguese NGO VIDA we analyze the impact of a food-based intervention to fight vitamin A deficiency using orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP).
More specifically, we conducted a randomized evaluation of OFSP-related training to female farmers in southern Mozambique, in which they were taught basic concepts of nutrition, how to plant OFSP, and how to introduce OFSP in household meals. We intend to assess the extent of OFSP-adoption and its effects on key nutrition indicators.
Please read here the working paper and here the article published in the Agricultural Economics.
For additional information about the NGO VIDA see here.
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