Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... There are generally two camps when it comes to sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving. Those who champion white-to-yellow fleshed spuds with tan to dusty-ivory skin ...

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Both varieties of the sweet potato have their own health benefits. Here is how each of them boosts health and finds out which ...

For the most nutritious potatoes, always look for this key sign at the grocery store to ensure you're getting the healthiest, most flavorful spuds.

Being a crop breeder in the modern world sometimes feels like being a fire fighter equipped with a very slow truck. The threats to food production, particularly in places like sub-Saharan Africa, ...

In partnership with One Acre Fund, we are following Anne, a smallholder farmer from Kenya, for a whole growing season. From planting to harvest, we will check in every month to see what life is really ...

In an effort to promote healthy living among the citizens and to ensure food security, the Federal Government has advised potato farmers in the country to adopt planting of orange-fleshed sweet potato ...

Luisa Garcia was a 2018 African Great Lakes Reporting Fellow with the International Women's Media Foundation. As Dr. Kirimi Sindi drove past the lush, green, rolling hills of Rwanda, he called the ...

Sweet potatoes are tossed with olive oil, salt, black pepper, and smoked paprika and baked until tender. They’re then ...

If you thought yams and sweet potatoes were the same thing, think again! While the two root vegetables might appear to be similar (largely in part to grocery stores mislabeling them), the difference ...