Adding value to Africa's cassava in a global environment

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Greenwichen
cg.contributor.affiliationAfrican Innovations Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationCouncil for Scientific and Industrial Research, Ghanaen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agricultureen
cg.contributor.affiliationTanzania Food and Nutrition Centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Agriculture, Abeokutaen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Malawien
cg.contributor.affiliationAccord Associatesen
cg.contributor.crpRoots, Tubers and Bananas
cg.contributor.donorBill & Melinda Gates Foundationen
cg.coverage.countryGhana
cg.coverage.countryMalawi
cg.coverage.countryNigeria
cg.coverage.countryTanzania
cg.coverage.countryUganda
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2GH
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2MW
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2NG
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2TZ
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2UG
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Africa
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africa
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.placeIbadan, Nigeriaen
cg.subject.iitaCASSAVAen
cg.subject.iitaVALUE CHAINSen
dc.contributor.authorAdebayo, K.en
dc.contributor.authorAbayomi, L.en
dc.contributor.authorAlacho, O.F.en
dc.contributor.authorDziedzoave, N.T.en
dc.contributor.authorForsythe, L.en
dc.contributor.authorGraffham, A.J.en
dc.contributor.authorIlona, Paulen
dc.contributor.authorKleih, Uli K.en
dc.contributor.authorLamboll, R.I.en
dc.contributor.authorMahende, G.en
dc.contributor.authorMartin, A.M.en
dc.contributor.authorOnumah, G.E.en
dc.contributor.authorPosthumus, Helenaen
dc.contributor.authorHillocks, R.J.en
dc.contributor.authorSanni, Lateef O.en
dc.contributor.authorSandifolo, V.S.en
dc.contributor.authorSergeant, A.en
dc.contributor.authorWestby, Andrewen
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-08T09:27:09Zen
dc.date.available2017-06-08T09:27:09Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/81487
dc.titleAdding value to Africa's cassava in a global environmenten
dcterms.abstractBased on experiences in the Cassava: Adding Value for Africa (C:AVA) project, this paper examines emerging issues and lessons for adding value to cassava, one of Africa's widely cultivated staples in ways that contribute to the global market environment as well as bring benefits to small holders on the continent. The main issues discussed include: competiveness in the supply of raw material, assisting smallholders to produce value-added products sustainably and competitively, ensuring and maintaining quality of products, selecting appropriate technologies for different circumstances and anticipating negative effects of the market environment on smallholders. One of the main challenges for value addition to a staple crop in Africa is finding 'champions' who are willing to make new investments with knowledge, skill and expertise requirements derived from other nations. The other is increasing the drying capacities for a tropical root crop through appropriate technologies that ensure production of high quality products in required volumes. One focus of the C:AVA project in the near future is to promote transfer of energy efficient Nigerian-made flash drier in collaboration with partners and fabricators from other C:AVA countries (Ghana, Uganda, Malawi and Tanzania). Improved energy efficiency will reduce fuel consumption, reduce operating cost and improve throughput of the dryers. An additional benefit will be reduction in emission of harmful greenhouse gases and their impact on global warming. It is anticipated that the knowledge and skills for further developing the value addition potential for cassava in all five countries will be enhanced. Benchmarking of key variables was used as an approach to understand differences between countries in terms of their abilities to develop high quality cassava flour value chains. It is clear that one strategy does not work in all countries and while positive government support for cassava development is helpful, the real driver is targeting markets according to realisable capacities of the smallholder actors in the value chain.en
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationAdebayo, K., Abayomi, L., Alacho, O.F., Dziedzoave, N., Forsythe, L., Graffham, A.J. ....& Westby, A. (2012). Adding value to Africa's cassava in a global environment. In:Proceedings of the 11th triennial Symposium of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences held at Memling Hotel: Tropical roots and tuber crops and the challenges of globalization and climate changes, (pp. 439-444), Kinshasa, 4-8 October. Ibadan: ISTRC-AB.en
dcterms.extent439-444en
dcterms.issued2012-02en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherInternational Association of Hydrological Sciencesen
dcterms.subjectcassavaen
dcterms.subjectvalue chainen
dcterms.subjectglobalizationen
dcterms.subjectc:avaen
dcterms.subjectsmallholdersen
dcterms.typeConference Proceedings

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