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Bibliography	Stathers, T., Namanda, S., Agili, S., Cherinet, M., Njoku, J., McEwan, M. (2017) Guide for Trainers - Sweetpotato Planting Material Conservation Triple S method: Sand, Storage, Sprouting., CIP Traning Guide, 42 pages, International Potato Centre, Nairobi, Kenya, URL: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/33b08ce6-7575-46cb-9bdc-8685576e113e/content, (accessed: 29/06/26)
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Abstract / Content summary	This Triple S training guide has been developed for all those involved in training smallholder farmers across Sub-Saharan Africa. We hope it acts as an easy-to-digest gender responsive resource material for supporting Triple S farmer training, and explaining the ‘why’ behind all the stages. Use of the Triple S (Sand, Storage, prouting) system for conserving sweetpotato over the dry-season and producing sufficient planting materials to plant at the start of the rains, enables farmers to harvest nutritious sweetpotato roots earlier in the season during the typically hungry period of the year, and to sell some of these early roots for higher prices, and to stagger their planting to help extend the harvesting period and yields, and to increase their resilience to increasingly variable climatic conditions. To assist trainers in sharing the Triple S system with farmers, we have developed an accompanying set of A1 sized training flip-charts which can be rolled up and used in practical training sessions during the set-up of Triple S systems or planting out of Triple S roots. Additionally a set of three farmer handouts have been developed to act as memory aids for the farmers during the Triple S process. These Triple S training products can be downloaded at:http://www.sweetpotatoknowledge.org/project/sweetpotato-action-for-security-and-health-in-africa-sasha/ Acknowledgements: This Triple S Trainer’s Guide has been produced as part of the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB). Funding support for this work was provided by Harvest Plus, SASHA, SUSTAIN. However, it builds on work done by a wide range of researchers, extensionists and farmers during a number of different activities funded by different donors over the past 10 years. Keywords:drought,frost,climate
identifier	| ISBN: 978-92-9060-479-2| DOI: 10.4160/9789290604792
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