Maria Isabel Andrade, born in 1958, is a Cape Verdean food scientist who has worked in Mozambique as a sweet potato researcher since 1996. She was a co-recipient of the 2016 World Food Prize alongside Jan Low, Robert Mwanga and Howarth Bouis for work developing the biofortified orange fleshed sweet potato.
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Defining ContributionHer advocacy made the biofortified orange fleshed sweet potato program in Mozambique a model for biofortification work across Sub-Saharan Africa. 2 In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Cabo Verde, nationality there.
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1. Wikipedia: Maria Andrade
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Maria Isabel Andrade (born 1958) is a Cape Verdean food scientist.
2. World Food Prize: Andrade, Bouis, Low and Mwanga (2016)
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Her passionate advocacy has resulted in the OFSP program in Mozambique becoming what one donor described as the 'calling card' for biofortification work in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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