Cassava Annual Report 2020
Cassava cultivation, though labor intensive and often subsistence oriented, provides smallholders and landless farmers as well as processors and traders across the tropics with a vital entry point for creating employment and income. Outperforming other crops in poor soils and under unpredictable rai...
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| author | Becerra-Lopez Lavalle, Luis Augusto Newby, Jonathan Craig Zhang, Xiaofei Bohorquez-Chaux, Adriana Malik, Imran Cuéllar, Wilmer Jose Delaquis, Erik Slavchevska, Vanya Tran, Thierry Chavarriaga, Paul Escobar Pérez, Roosevelt Humberto |
| author_browse | Becerra-Lopez Lavalle, Luis Augusto Bohorquez-Chaux, Adriana Chavarriaga, Paul Cuéllar, Wilmer Jose Delaquis, Erik Escobar Pérez, Roosevelt Humberto Malik, Imran Newby, Jonathan Craig Slavchevska, Vanya Tran, Thierry Zhang, Xiaofei |
| author_facet | Becerra-Lopez Lavalle, Luis Augusto Newby, Jonathan Craig Zhang, Xiaofei Bohorquez-Chaux, Adriana Malik, Imran Cuéllar, Wilmer Jose Delaquis, Erik Slavchevska, Vanya Tran, Thierry Chavarriaga, Paul Escobar Pérez, Roosevelt Humberto |
| author_sort | Becerra-Lopez Lavalle, Luis Augusto |
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| description | Cassava cultivation, though labor intensive and often subsistence oriented, provides smallholders and landless farmers as well as processors and traders across the tropics with a vital entry point for creating employment and income. Outperforming other crops in poor soils and under unpredictable rainfall, cassava is also crucial for enhancing the resilience of crop production systems in the face of climate change. However, cassava will become more susceptible to pests and diseases, as climate change likely increases their range of mobility. Moreover, production costs and postharvest losses remain high; technology uptake is limited; and producers’ market links are weak, even though cassava serves as a feedstock for numerous industrial uses, including food, feed, and starch.
The newly formed Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) recognizes the vital contribution that cassava makes to poverty reduction, and this is reflected in the objectives and outcomes of the Cassava Sub-Lever’s recently developed strategy. In addition, we have prepared a multidisciplinary workplan across our six strategic Research and Service Areas (RSAs). The RSAs help integrate work on cassava with the Alliance’s strategy and lever structure, and also provide us with an overarching framework for prioritizing investments and delivering impacts in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC )and Southeast Asia (SEA), while supporting the work of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in sub-Saharan Africa.
Guided by this strategic framework, the Cassava Sub-Lever relies on multiple strengths to fulfill its mission of improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers through genetic solutions to global problems that are fit for purpose within agricultural-economic-social-ecological systems. In operational terms, the RSAs create logical groupings of work around key themes and areas of expertise. In the sections that follow, we report on some of the noteworthy results that the Cassava Sub-Lever achieved in 2020 through its six RSAs. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1167432025-11-05T12:55:22Z Cassava Annual Report 2020 Becerra-Lopez Lavalle, Luis Augusto Newby, Jonathan Craig Zhang, Xiaofei Bohorquez-Chaux, Adriana Malik, Imran Cuéllar, Wilmer Jose Delaquis, Erik Slavchevska, Vanya Tran, Thierry Chavarriaga, Paul Escobar Pérez, Roosevelt Humberto cassava plant breeding gene expression pests diseases soil management food processing value chains markets policies mandioca fitomejoramiento expresión génica Cassava cultivation, though labor intensive and often subsistence oriented, provides smallholders and landless farmers as well as processors and traders across the tropics with a vital entry point for creating employment and income. Outperforming other crops in poor soils and under unpredictable rainfall, cassava is also crucial for enhancing the resilience of crop production systems in the face of climate change. However, cassava will become more susceptible to pests and diseases, as climate change likely increases their range of mobility. Moreover, production costs and postharvest losses remain high; technology uptake is limited; and producers’ market links are weak, even though cassava serves as a feedstock for numerous industrial uses, including food, feed, and starch. The newly formed Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) recognizes the vital contribution that cassava makes to poverty reduction, and this is reflected in the objectives and outcomes of the Cassava Sub-Lever’s recently developed strategy. In addition, we have prepared a multidisciplinary workplan across our six strategic Research and Service Areas (RSAs). The RSAs help integrate work on cassava with the Alliance’s strategy and lever structure, and also provide us with an overarching framework for prioritizing investments and delivering impacts in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC )and Southeast Asia (SEA), while supporting the work of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in sub-Saharan Africa. Guided by this strategic framework, the Cassava Sub-Lever relies on multiple strengths to fulfill its mission of improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers through genetic solutions to global problems that are fit for purpose within agricultural-economic-social-ecological systems. In operational terms, the RSAs create logical groupings of work around key themes and areas of expertise. In the sections that follow, we report on some of the noteworthy results that the Cassava Sub-Lever achieved in 2020 through its six RSAs. 2021-12-01 2021-12-15T08:30:41Z 2021-12-15T08:30:41Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/116743 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110577 Open Access application/pdf Becerra-Lopez Lavalle, L.A.; Newby, J.N.; Zhang, X.; Bohorquez-Chaux, A.; Malik, I.; Cuellar, W.; Delaquis, E.; Slavchevska, V.; Tran, T.; Chavarriaga, P.; Escobar, R. (2021) Cassava Annual Report 2020. Cali (Colombia): CIAT Cassava Program. 67 p. |
| spellingShingle | cassava plant breeding gene expression pests diseases soil management food processing value chains markets policies mandioca fitomejoramiento expresión génica Becerra-Lopez Lavalle, Luis Augusto Newby, Jonathan Craig Zhang, Xiaofei Bohorquez-Chaux, Adriana Malik, Imran Cuéllar, Wilmer Jose Delaquis, Erik Slavchevska, Vanya Tran, Thierry Chavarriaga, Paul Escobar Pérez, Roosevelt Humberto Cassava Annual Report 2020 |
| title | Cassava Annual Report 2020 |
| title_full | Cassava Annual Report 2020 |
| title_fullStr | Cassava Annual Report 2020 |
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| title_short | Cassava Annual Report 2020 |
| title_sort | cassava annual report 2020 |
| topic | cassava plant breeding gene expression pests diseases soil management food processing value chains markets policies mandioca fitomejoramiento expresión génica |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/116743 |
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