Sustainable inclusion of smallholders in the emerging high quality cassava flour value chains in Africa: challenges for agricultural extension services

Based on the premise that smallholders often get excludedas markets become more commercial, this paper draws lessons from the Cassava: Adding Value for Africa (C:AVA) Project by exploring the main issues and challenges facing extension service partners in five African countr...

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Autores principales: Adebayo, K., Abayomi, L., Abass, A., Dziedzoave, N.T., Forsythe, L., Hillocks, R.J., Gensi, R., Gibson, R., Graffham, A.J., Ilona, Paul, Kleih, Uli K., Lamboll, R.I., Mahende, G., Martin, A.M., Onumah, G.E., Orr, A.W., Posthumus, Helena, Sanni, Lateef O., Sandifolo, V.S., Westby, Andrew
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/90378
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author Adebayo, K.
Abayomi, L.
Abass, A.
Dziedzoave, N.T.
Forsythe, L.
Hillocks, R.J.
Gensi, R.
Gibson, R.
Graffham, A.J.
Ilona, Paul
Kleih, Uli K.
Lamboll, R.I.
Mahende, G.
Martin, A.M.
Onumah, G.E.
Orr, A.W.
Posthumus, Helena
Sanni, Lateef O.
Sandifolo, V.S.
Westby, Andrew
author_browse Abass, A.
Abayomi, L.
Adebayo, K.
Dziedzoave, N.T.
Forsythe, L.
Gensi, R.
Gibson, R.
Graffham, A.J.
Hillocks, R.J.
Ilona, Paul
Kleih, Uli K.
Lamboll, R.I.
Mahende, G.
Martin, A.M.
Onumah, G.E.
Orr, A.W.
Posthumus, Helena
Sandifolo, V.S.
Sanni, Lateef O.
Westby, Andrew
author_facet Adebayo, K.
Abayomi, L.
Abass, A.
Dziedzoave, N.T.
Forsythe, L.
Hillocks, R.J.
Gensi, R.
Gibson, R.
Graffham, A.J.
Ilona, Paul
Kleih, Uli K.
Lamboll, R.I.
Mahende, G.
Martin, A.M.
Onumah, G.E.
Orr, A.W.
Posthumus, Helena
Sanni, Lateef O.
Sandifolo, V.S.
Westby, Andrew
author_sort Adebayo, K.
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description Based on the premise that smallholders often get excludedas markets become more commercial, this paper draws lessons from the Cassava: Adding Value for Africa (C:AVA) Project by exploring the main issues and challenges facing extension service partners in five African countries (Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Ugandaand Malawi). These lessons include issues around competiveness in the supply of raw material, assisting smallholders to produce value-added products competitively, working with a range of partners at different stages in the value chain to take pilot studies to scale, ensuring and maintaining quality, selecting appropriate technologies for different circumstances, anticipating negative effects of the market environment on smallholders and ensuring that strategies for ensuring benefits for women and other disadvantaged groups are incorporated into extension service operations. It concluded that one strategy does not work in all countries and, while positive government support for cassava development is helpful, the real challenge is in the need to target markets according to realisable capacities of the smallholder actors in the value chain.
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spelling CGSpace903782025-04-17T08:26:44Z Sustainable inclusion of smallholders in the emerging high quality cassava flour value chains in Africa: challenges for agricultural extension services Adebayo, K. Abayomi, L. Abass, A. Dziedzoave, N.T. Forsythe, L. Hillocks, R.J. Gensi, R. Gibson, R. Graffham, A.J. Ilona, Paul Kleih, Uli K. Lamboll, R.I. Mahende, G. Martin, A.M. Onumah, G.E. Orr, A.W. Posthumus, Helena Sanni, Lateef O. Sandifolo, V.S. Westby, Andrew smallholders cassava value chain hqcf fufu households cassava production cassava roots cassava flour Based on the premise that smallholders often get excludedas markets become more commercial, this paper draws lessons from the Cassava: Adding Value for Africa (C:AVA) Project by exploring the main issues and challenges facing extension service partners in five African countries (Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Ugandaand Malawi). These lessons include issues around competiveness in the supply of raw material, assisting smallholders to produce value-added products competitively, working with a range of partners at different stages in the value chain to take pilot studies to scale, ensuring and maintaining quality, selecting appropriate technologies for different circumstances, anticipating negative effects of the market environment on smallholders and ensuring that strategies for ensuring benefits for women and other disadvantaged groups are incorporated into extension service operations. It concluded that one strategy does not work in all countries and, while positive government support for cassava development is helpful, the real challenge is in the need to target markets according to realisable capacities of the smallholder actors in the value chain. 2010-06 2018-01-16T12:03:42Z 2018-01-16T12:03:42Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/90378 en Open Access Adebayo, K., Abayomi, L., Abass, A., Dziedzoave, N., Forsythe, L., Hillocks, R.J., ... & Westby, A. (2010). Sustainable inclusion of smallholders in the emerging high quality cassava flour value chains in Africa: challenges for agricultural extension services. Journal of Agricultural Extension, 14(1), 1-10.
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value chain
hqcf
fufu
households
cassava production
cassava roots
cassava flour
Adebayo, K.
Abayomi, L.
Abass, A.
Dziedzoave, N.T.
Forsythe, L.
Hillocks, R.J.
Gensi, R.
Gibson, R.
Graffham, A.J.
Ilona, Paul
Kleih, Uli K.
Lamboll, R.I.
Mahende, G.
Martin, A.M.
Onumah, G.E.
Orr, A.W.
Posthumus, Helena
Sanni, Lateef O.
Sandifolo, V.S.
Westby, Andrew
Sustainable inclusion of smallholders in the emerging high quality cassava flour value chains in Africa: challenges for agricultural extension services
title Sustainable inclusion of smallholders in the emerging high quality cassava flour value chains in Africa: challenges for agricultural extension services
title_full Sustainable inclusion of smallholders in the emerging high quality cassava flour value chains in Africa: challenges for agricultural extension services
title_fullStr Sustainable inclusion of smallholders in the emerging high quality cassava flour value chains in Africa: challenges for agricultural extension services
title_full_unstemmed Sustainable inclusion of smallholders in the emerging high quality cassava flour value chains in Africa: challenges for agricultural extension services
title_short Sustainable inclusion of smallholders in the emerging high quality cassava flour value chains in Africa: challenges for agricultural extension services
title_sort sustainable inclusion of smallholders in the emerging high quality cassava flour value chains in africa challenges for agricultural extension services
topic smallholders
cassava
value chain
hqcf
fufu
households
cassava production
cassava roots
cassava flour
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/90378
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