Variety use and preferences among smallholder sweetpotato farmers and how best to improve their access to quality seed: A gendered perspective and implications for breeding program design

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationNational Crops Resources Research Institute, Ugandaen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Potato Centeren
cg.contributor.affiliationAfrica Rice Centeren
cg.contributor.affiliationSwedish University of Agricultural Sciencesen
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.initiativeMarket Intelligence
cg.contributor.programAcceleratorBreeding for Tomorrow
cg.coverage.countryUganda
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2UG
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.creator.identifierIrene Bayiyana: 0000-0002-1233-3692en
cg.creator.identifierJulius Juma Okello: 0000-0003-2217-2770en
cg.creator.identifierSylvester Ojwang: 0000-0002-3171-0895en
cg.creator.identifierCHALMERS KYALO MULWA: 0000-0002-4949-4190en
cg.creator.identifierKelvin Mashisia Shikuku: 0000-0003-2290-074Xen
cg.creator.identifierSarah Mayanja: 0000-0002-9698-0036en
cg.creator.identifierReuben SSALI Tendo: 0000-0002-8143-6564en
cg.creator.identifierNAMANDA SAM: 0000-0001-7822-0626en
cg.creator.identifierCarl Johan Lagerkvist: 0000-0003-1191-9445en
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1079/cabireviews.2025.0004en
cg.issn1749-8848en
cg.issue1en
cg.journalCABI Reviewsen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.actionAreaGenetic Innovation
cg.subject.actionAreaSystems Transformation
cg.subject.cipGENDERen
cg.subject.cipSEED SYSTEMSen
cg.subject.cipSWEETPOTATOESen
cg.subject.cipIMPACT ASSESSMENTen
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusion
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
cg.subject.impactAreaClimate adaptation and mitigation
cg.subject.sdgSDG 2 - Zero hungeren
cg.subject.sdgSDG 5 - Gender equalityen
cg.subject.sdgSDG 3 - Good health and well-beingen
cg.subject.sdgSDG 12 - Responsible consumption and productionen
cg.volume20en
dc.contributor.authorBayiyana, I.en
dc.contributor.authorOkello, J.J.en
dc.contributor.authorOjwang, S.O.en
dc.contributor.authorMulwa, C.K.en
dc.contributor.authorShikuku, Kelvin Mashisiaen
dc.contributor.authorMayanja, S.en
dc.contributor.authorSsali, R.T.en
dc.contributor.authorNamanda, S.en
dc.contributor.authorKemigisha, D.en
dc.contributor.authorLagerkvist, Carl Johanen
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-10T21:07:28Zen
dc.date.available2025-04-10T21:07:28Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/174135
dc.titleVariety use and preferences among smallholder sweetpotato farmers and how best to improve their access to quality seed: A gendered perspective and implications for breeding program designen
dcterms.abstractUganda is a secondary centre of diversity of sweetpotato with most farmers maintaining at least four varieties in their fields. However, most of these varieties are landraces, with the uptake of improved sweetpotato varieties being quite low in the country, especially among women. Efforts to decrease the gender technology adoption gap are critical for inclusive impacts of innovations. This study aims to understand gendered drivers of sourcing and use of sweetpotato varieties among smallholder farmers exposed to behavioural interventions in Uganda. Key informant interviews (KII), focus group discussions (FGDs) and semi-structured interviews (SSI) were used to gather baseline information from farmers located in communities that received behavioural interventions. The results indicate that while men sourced seed-vines mainly from purchasing in the market, women farmers did so mainly from social networks including fellow farmers or neighbours. Men had higher tendency to source vines from the market likely because of higher mobility than women. Consumption traits, especially quality characteristics were strongly associated with variety use. Notably, sweet taste played a big role and was linked to preference for Iboi, Ejumula and Kakamega, the leading varieties. This was followed by high root yield. The challenges women face in sweetpotato production included limited labour force and shortage of farm equipment/machinery, lack of timely access to planting material at on-set of rains, and lack of access to affordable/ cost of improved varieties. These findings highlight the importance of paying attention to both quality and agronomic traits, and not only the latter, in variety development. They also suggest the need for implementation of effective promotional strategies including demonstration gardens, technical backstopping to extensionists to equip them, radio talk shows and market linkages.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen
dcterms.audienceCGIARen
dcterms.audienceDevelopment Practitionersen
dcterms.audienceDonorsen
dcterms.audienceExtensionen
dcterms.audienceFarmersen
dcterms.audienceGeneral Publicen
dcterms.audienceNGOsen
dcterms.audiencePolicy Makersen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBayiyana, I.; Okello, J.J.; Ojwang, S.; Mulwa, C.; Shikuku, K;, Mayanja, S.; Tendo, S.R.; Sam, N.; Kemigisha, D.; Lagerkvist, C. 2025. Variety use and preferences among smallholder sweetpotato farmers and how best to improve their access to quality seed: A gendered perspective and implications for breeding program design. CABI Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1079/cabireviews.2025.0004en
dcterms.issued2025-03-17en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.subjectsweet potatoesen
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjectseed systemsen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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