HarvestPlus Receives US$6 Million Gates Foundation Grant to Disseminate Biofortified Sweetpotato to the Undernourished in Africa

MARRAKECH, Morocco — HarvestPlus has received a US$6 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to introduce a nutritionally improved staple food—orange sweetpotato—into the diets of the undernourished in East Africa. The grant will significantly advance HarvestPlus’s efforts to grow and distribute high vitamin-A sweetpotatoes and communicate their health benefits widely among the poor.

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