Building a sustainable, integrated seed system for cassava in Nigeria (BASICS)
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Item Report of Virtual Conference. BASICS Phase I - Achievements and Learnings Meeting. May 18-19, 2020(Report, 2020-05) Bentley, J.W.; Nitturkar, H.; Friedmann, M.; Thiele, GrahamThe Building an Economically Sustainable Integrated Cassava Seed System in Nigeria (BASICS) project began in 2016 and formally ends on 30 June 2020. The project has made progress in demonstrating that commercially viable production and sale of breeder, foundation and certified seed is possible. Furthermore, the project has established a strong basis for building a sustainable seed system by developing building blocks across the seed value chain. This meeting had the following objectives: 1. To identify the achievements and lessons learned in each of the project components; 2. To identify the shortcomings in each component (what would I do differently, knowing what I know now?), remaining challenges and ideas to overcome them; 3. To assess and discuss the challenges and progress made in integrating the components into an integrated seed system and identify ways integration can be improved; 4. To assess and discuss the commercial sustainability of the seed system and identify options to promote its sustainability and further scaling; and 5. To make plans for the publication of the findings and lessons learned during BASICS-1Item 2019 Annual review and planning meeting of BASICS project(Report, 2019-03-01) CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and BananasThe BASICS Annual Review and Planning Meeting (ARPM) 2019 was held in IITA Headquarters in Ibadan, Nigeria from 11-13 March 2019. The Meeting was attended by around 70 participants from Nigeria and several other countries. The participants included breeders, food and crop scientists, project managers, national policy experts, R&D managers, donor, social scientists and company representatives. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting will be published on the BASICS website (http://www.rtb.cgiar.org/basics/) The purpose of the current summary is to synthesize some of the discussions, conclusions and points for future action. There are links within this document to access the actual presentations made during the ARPM. The main aim of the ARPM was to reiterate the project vision, share what has been done, what is to be done in 2019 and brainstorm on what needs to be done over a possible next phase of activities to achieve the goal of developing an economically sustainable seed system for cassava in Nigeria. Towards this, the ARPM over the three days was planned with the following objectives listed below.Item Annual Review and Planning Meeting Report(Report, 2017-03) CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas