OSPARC-PLATEAU: Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato for Agricultural Resilience and Community-Nutrition

About this project

Many rural communities in some Local Government Areas of Plateau State continue to face high levels of malnutrition, limited livelihood opportunities, and increasing vulnerability to climate variability due to violence. Diets are often dominated by low-nutrient staple foods, with limited awareness or access to nutrient-rich crops such as Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato (OFSP), which is rich in Vitamin A. This proposed third phase of CAFOD funding will support OSPARC-PLATEAU to strengthen nutrition, incomes, and climate resilience among 300 smallholder farmers, primarily women, men youths (with person with disabilities inclusive) through the development of the Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato (OFSP) value chain in Plateau State, Nigeria. The funding will enable climate-smart production, improved access to quality planting materials, value addition, strengthened market linkages, and targeted nutrition education to enhance dietary diversity and household income. This integrated approach will promote sustainable, inclusive, and community-level resilience beyond the project lifecycle. The choice of farming OFSP is due to the availability of the vines, early maturity period and can be cultivated thrice a year, with high yield and nutritional value. The OFSP tubers can be processed into various products such as flour, cakes, puree, juice, doughnuts, cookies, meat pie and fish rolls. Investing in this value chain can increase economic statues of farmers, and improve the health condition of f…

Published by

CAFOD · International NGO

Countries

Nigeria

Sectors

Food crop productionAgricultural servicesSmall and medium-sized enterprises (SME) development

Focus

Environment · Main focus

Funded by

Catholic Agency For Overseas Development (CAFOD)

Implemented by

Social Justice and Human Dev. for Peace Initiative

Published by CAFOD to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 1 Jun 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: GB-CHC-285776-NGR555.

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