Across Nigeria’s tomato fields, smallholder farmers are navigating a rapidly transforming food system, shaped by growing urbanization, rising incomes, shifting diets toward fresh, safe, high-quality food. This has fueled the growth of midstream actors, such as aggregators, wholesalers, transporters,…
From high-quality cassava flour to mobile processing and technology delivery through TAAT, Dr Adebayo Abass reflects on how research, markets and partnerships can turn Africa’s cassava production into greater value for farmers and industry. Producing more cassava does not necessarily mean…
Knowledge is increasingly recognized as one of Africa’s most valuable agricultural resources, not only for generating innovations, but also for ensuring that proven solutions reach the last-mile users—smallholder farmers—that need those most. Against this backdrop, continental partners have…
Building a functional formal cassava seed system is critical to Tanzania’s agriculture. It is the foundation for providing high-yielding, disease-resistant, and climate-resilient cassava varieties to smallholder farmers. Yet the very people who form the backbone of cassava production, women…
The IFAD/IITA HQCF Value chain project organized a field day at Ijoga-Orile on 8 December 2015, bringing together HQCF master bakers, extension agents, farmers, financial institutions, input suppliers, local machine fabricators, marketers, nutritionists, processors, researchers, transporters, youth, and students.…
In Nigeria, the world’s largest cassava producer, a proposed project, the first of its kind, will develop an economically sustainable seed system for cassava that can grow and supply farmers with new varieties. This was the focus of a…
While the main source of income for cassava farmers in Tanzania is through the sale of cassava roots, the leaves which are edible and rich in protein and vitamins are becoming increasingly important. However, trade in the leaves is…
IITA with funds from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has constructed and equipped eleven cassava processing factories for smallholder groups. This is part of efforts to support the Smallholders’ Commercialization Program (SCP) of the Ministry of…