Abass, Adebayo

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Establishing cassava as an agro-industrial crop through the scaling-out of proventechnologies and innovations for the production, processing, and marketing of value-addedproducts in AfricaAdebayo Abassa.abass@cgiar.orgInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, NigeriaAbstract: Cassava Manihot esculenta Crantz is an important source of calories in the tropics. The crop remainsone of the most consumed food crops in Africa. While Africa dominates global cassava production, the yields re-main well below the world average owing to many factors such as disease pandemic, the low adoption of availabletechnologies. TAAT Cassava Compact seeks to scale-out proven technologies and innovations that raise farm-levelproductivity, improve the efficiency of processing, increase market opportunity for the smallholders, and catalyzeprivate-sector investments. The Compact works with national institutions rsponsible for technology development anddissemination, NGOs and other partners to introduce to farmers high yielding, disease tolerant, and nutritious biofor-tified varieties integrated soil fertility management approaches, and innovative approaches for mechanized productionand weed control to derive the productivity increases that benefit the smallholders technologies for the processing ofcassava-based industrial raw materials such as starch and novel food products bread, strips, biscuits, etc, includingthe processing of cassava waste into quality animal feed ingredients. The ultimate goals are to improve food andnutrition security, reduce rural household poverty and improve livelihoods in Africa. TAAT - Technologies for AfricanAgricultural Transformation

Establishing Cassava as an Agro-Industrial Crop Through the Scaling-Out of Proven Technologies and Innovations for the Production, Processing, and Marketing of Value-Added Products in Africa

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Establishing Cassava as an Agro-Industrial Crop Through the Scaling-Out of Proven Technologies and Innovations for the Production, Processing, and Marketing of Value-Added Products in Africa

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