SMART FOOD ESA

#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 ow.ly/sz6o30obO6k @SmartFoodESA @SmartFoodIndia @SmartfoodWCA @cwgathecha @AgatheDiama @JoannaKP

#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. ow.ly/4vpT30obULP @cwgathecha @SmartFoodESA

A study showed that when prepared in culturally sensitive ways, @SmartFoodGlobal excited consumers and were significantly more nutritious. Click on to learn more 👉 bit.ly/2JKaFyZ

@ICRISAT and #SmartFood executive council member - @CORAFNews are among the 119 organizations shaking up the Food System in 2019 listed by @foodtank smartfood.org/project/119-or… @IcrisatW @ICRISATESA @SmartFoodIndia @SmartFoodESA @SmartfoodWCA @JoannaKP

Researchers develop disease-resistant #climatesmartgrains to help eradicate #poverty in #Africa bakeryandsnacks.com/Article/2019/0… @ICRISAT @SmartFoodESA @SmartFoodGlobal @FAO @JoannaKP

@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 news.trust.org/item/201904011… @ICRISAT @RPGeneticGains @coeingenomics @CGIARgender @ICRISATESA @IcrisatW @SmartFoodGlobal @FAO

"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. bit.ly/2G3TX9P @ICRISATESA @cwgathecha @ICRISAT @SmartFoodESA

#UPDATE Most of the #Sorghum and #Millet trial plots in the project counties have done tremendously well since planting. The farmers are now in the process of thinning and weeding.

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

#Busia Farmer groups in Bunyala have taken up adding value to #sorghum and #millet to earn extra income. #SOMNI project supports these farmers by providing them with charcoal ovens and basic training on value addition.

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

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

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.

#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.

#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

@kikobuff @seyloubakery @foodtank @tambra Here’s a small clip of @JoannaKP of @ICRISAT in conversation with India’s celebrity Chef @ranveerbrar about @SmartFoodGlobal twitter.com/smartfoodindia… #millets @SmartFoodESA

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

#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

#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

Mwendatu Farmer group and @AfricaHarvestKe team establishing SOMNI trial plots at Njuthine Village, Mwanganthia Ward.