Commercially sustainable cassava seed systems in Africa
Cassava is an important crop in sub-Saharan Africa for food security, income generation, and industrial development. Business-oriented production systems require reliable supplies of high-quality seed. Major initiatives in Nigeria and Tanzania have sought to establish sustainable cassava seed system...
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| author | Legg, James P. Diebiru-Ojo, E.M. Eagle, D. Friedmann, M. Kanju, E. Kapinga, R. Kumar, P. Lava Lateef, S. Magige, S. Mtunda, K. Yabeja, J.W. Nitturkar, H. |
| author_browse | Diebiru-Ojo, E.M. Eagle, D. Friedmann, M. Kanju, E. Kapinga, R. Kumar, P. Lava Lateef, S. Legg, James P. Magige, S. Mtunda, K. Nitturkar, H. Yabeja, J.W. |
| author_facet | Legg, James P. Diebiru-Ojo, E.M. Eagle, D. Friedmann, M. Kanju, E. Kapinga, R. Kumar, P. Lava Lateef, S. Magige, S. Mtunda, K. Yabeja, J.W. Nitturkar, H. |
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| description | Cassava is an important crop in sub-Saharan Africa for food security, income generation, and industrial development. Business-oriented production systems require reliable supplies of high-quality seed. Major initiatives in Nigeria and Tanzania have sought to establish sustainable cassava seed systems. These include the deployment of new technologies for early generation seed (EGS) production; the promotion of new high-yielding and disease-resistant varieties; the updating of government seed policy to facilitate enabling certification guidelines; the application of ICT tools, Seed Tracker and Nuru AI, to simplify seed system management; and the establishment of networks of cassava seed entrepreneurs (CSEs). CSEs have been able to make profits in both Nigeria (US$ 551–988/ha) and Tanzania (US$1,000 1,500/ha). In Nigeria, the critical demand driver for cassava seed businesses is the provision of new varieties. Contrastingly, in Tanzania, high incidences of cassava brown streak disease mean that there is a strong demand for the provision of healthy seed that has been certified by regulators. These models for sustainable cassava seed system development offer great promise for scaling to other cassava-producing
countries in Africa where there is strong government support for the commercialization of the cassava sector. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1201692023-12-08T19:36:04Z Commercially sustainable cassava seed systems in Africa Legg, James P. Diebiru-Ojo, E.M. Eagle, D. Friedmann, M. Kanju, E. Kapinga, R. Kumar, P. Lava Lateef, S. Magige, S. Mtunda, K. Yabeja, J.W. Nitturkar, H. cassava seed production food security technology transfer production yields sub-saharan africa Cassava is an important crop in sub-Saharan Africa for food security, income generation, and industrial development. Business-oriented production systems require reliable supplies of high-quality seed. Major initiatives in Nigeria and Tanzania have sought to establish sustainable cassava seed systems. These include the deployment of new technologies for early generation seed (EGS) production; the promotion of new high-yielding and disease-resistant varieties; the updating of government seed policy to facilitate enabling certification guidelines; the application of ICT tools, Seed Tracker and Nuru AI, to simplify seed system management; and the establishment of networks of cassava seed entrepreneurs (CSEs). CSEs have been able to make profits in both Nigeria (US$ 551–988/ha) and Tanzania (US$1,000 1,500/ha). In Nigeria, the critical demand driver for cassava seed businesses is the provision of new varieties. Contrastingly, in Tanzania, high incidences of cassava brown streak disease mean that there is a strong demand for the provision of healthy seed that has been certified by regulators. These models for sustainable cassava seed system development offer great promise for scaling to other cassava-producing countries in Africa where there is strong government support for the commercialization of the cassava sector. 2022 2022-07-19T07:55:58Z 2022-07-19T07:55:58Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/120169 en Open Access application/pdf Springer Legg, J.P., Diebiru-Ojo, E., Eagle, D., Friedmann, M., Kanju, E., Kapinga, R., ... & Nitturkar, H. (2022). Commercially sustainable cassava seed systems in Africa. In M. Friedmann, H. Campos, V. Polar, and J.W. Bentley, Root, Tuber and Banana Food System Innovations, Cham: Springer (p. 453-482). |
| spellingShingle | cassava seed production food security technology transfer production yields sub-saharan africa Legg, James P. Diebiru-Ojo, E.M. Eagle, D. Friedmann, M. Kanju, E. Kapinga, R. Kumar, P. Lava Lateef, S. Magige, S. Mtunda, K. Yabeja, J.W. Nitturkar, H. Commercially sustainable cassava seed systems in Africa |
| title | Commercially sustainable cassava seed systems in Africa |
| title_full | Commercially sustainable cassava seed systems in Africa |
| title_fullStr | Commercially sustainable cassava seed systems in Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Commercially sustainable cassava seed systems in Africa |
| title_short | Commercially sustainable cassava seed systems in Africa |
| title_sort | commercially sustainable cassava seed systems in africa |
| topic | cassava seed production food security technology transfer production yields sub-saharan africa |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/120169 |
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