itamin A Orange sweet potato and Iron beans grown and consumed respectively by 960,000 and 695,000 households in Uganda

2020 marked 15 years of HarvestPlus activities in Uganda. The latest monitoring data shows that 960,000 smallholder households – more than 10% of the Ugandan population – were growing vitamin A orange sweet potato (OSP) varieties and 695,000 households were growing iron beans. Ensuring the supply of clean planting material, payback and pay forward delivery systems, digital technologies, and a multi-stakeholder technical working group are some of the innovative approaches that have been used successfully to sustain and scale-up biofortification.