1. Cassava Transformation Plan for Africa in the
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Cassava Transformation Plan for Africa in the
Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) Program
1Adebayo Abass and 2Paul Amaza
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Regional Hub for Eastern Africa, Tanzania
University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria
Workshop on Integrated System for an Effective Cassava Production in Africa
IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria,
October , 2016

2. Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) Program
What TAAT is…
A bold plan to achieve rapid agricultural transformation across Africa by raising agricultural productivity in eight (8) Priority Intervention Areas (PIAs)
Scaling proven technologies & innovations
Moving - Concept to Investment Operations
Modernizing farming in Africa by focusing on the priority intervention areas
Fine-tuning of promising research findings
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3. Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) Program
23 Value chains;
19 commodity & 4 livestock
35 National Programs across Africa
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4. Cassava Intensification and Agro-Industrial Development: Impact Targets
Reduce household poverty
Improve Food Security
Increase national GDP (%)
Promote Sustainable land use (SLU) 3 1 2 4
IMPACT
49% of Africans or 420 million live under the poverty line of $1.25 per day (2014);
33% of African children live in chronic hunger;
Many African hou-seholds face food deficiency of KCAL per capita/day.
Net food import bill of $35.4 billion per annum (2015);
Contribution of cassava to agricultural GDP of TAAT countries is 12.70%
Only 3% of cassava farmers are using inorganic fertilizer
Status Today
Increase percent of cassava farmers using inorganic fertilizer to at least 30
Increase cassava contribution to national agriculture GDP by at least 7.3%
Target by 2025
Contribute to redu-cing poverty to max. of 40% from 49%
though job creation
Improve food security by reducing food deficiency to KCAL per capital
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5. Cassava Intensification and Agro-Industrial Development: Outcome Targets
Increased cassava productivity
Increased farm-level & national production outputs
Increased job created in agriculture sector
Increased income 1 3 2 4 4
OUTCOMES
Average cassava production = 9.1 million tons/country/yr
Average cassava production = 12.3 million tons/country/yr
382.9 million
youth & women employed
390.5 million
Per capita income of $1700/yr
Per capita income of $1966.9/yr
Average national yield = 10.5 tons/ha
Average yield of at least 14 (tons/ha)
Current
Target by 2022
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6. Priority Intervention Zones by Geography
Priority Intervention Countries
Selected based on national development strategies and other country specific success factors.
Tier 1
Cameroon T1
Cote D’Ivoire
DR Congo
Ghana
Malawi
Mozambique
Nigeria
Sierra Leone
Tanzania
Tier 2
Angola T2
Benin
Burundi
Rwanda
Uganda
Zambia
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7. Agripole: Example of HQCF project in Nigeria
The Agripole Approach: Ensuring that each actor gets equitable benefits
Agripole: Example of HQCF project in Nigeria
Agripole: Opportunity to vertically integrate and link all the actors involved in input supply, production, processing, marketing and other activities along the value chain.
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8. Approved Technology Packages for Scaling
Agripole: Example of HQCF project in Nigeria
Seven Technology Packages:
Improved Mineral Fertilizer Application Schemes Adjusted to Local & Weather Conditions (ISFM) + Weed Management;
Delivery of improved Varieties;
Cassava Pests and Disease Management;
Mechanization of Cassava Production;
Cassava Processing (Village-Scale Mechanical Processing, Mechanical Peeling. Mechanical Drying Using Dryers);
Improved Quality Cassava Products (High Quality Cassava Chips, High Quality Cassava Flour (HQCF), Starch and Cassava-based Foods);
Cassava waste2Wealth.
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9. Approved Technologies for Scaling (some examples)
Targeted Research to Strengthen Production /Processing Efficiency and Create Opportunities for Investment by the Private sector
Approved Technologies for Scaling (some examples)
Improved Varieties
Delivery of Improved Varieties including Nutritious bio-fortified varieties
Cassava Multiplication
Planting Material Production
Business-efficient pest and disease management
Integrated pest management
Pest and disease diagnostic services for cassava commercialization
Biological control of cassava diseases
Improved Mineral Fertilizer Appli-cation Schemes
Improved mineral fertilizer application schemes,
Staggered planting practices
Use of pre and post emergence herbicides
Machinery for Cassava Production
Machinery for cassava production (planter, cutter, harvester, etc)
Motorized weed control
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10. Non-toxin producing Aspergillus coated Peel granules
Targeted Research to Strengthen Production /Processing Efficiency and Create Opportunities for Investment by the Private sector
Approved Technologies for Scaling
Machinery for cassava processing
Medium-to-large scale mechanized dryers
Mechanical cassava peelers
Machinery for mechanized processing of gari, starch, fufu, etc.
High Quality Cassava Products
High quality cassava chips, flour and starch processing technologies
Novel food products (baked & confectionary products: bread, cake, etc.)
Improved Traditional Food products
Ethanol and adhesives from cassava starch and flour
Glucose production- 1 ton/day
Cassava Waste Utilization
Cassava peels as ingredients for animal feed,
Production of mushrooms from cassava peels
Cassava peels as substrates for aflasafe production
Non-toxin producing Aspergillus coated Peel granules
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11. Value Chain Innovations to Promote Commercialization
Targeted Research to Strengthen Production /Processing Efficiency and Create Opportunities for Investment by the Private sector
Value Chain Innovations to Promote Commercialization
Market intelligence and information systems
Innovative packaging, branding & positioning strategy for African cassava
Agribusiness service delivery
Provide real time information on demand and supply volumes, values, prices of produce(ts) required within a target market
Packaging, product brand differentiation and pricing.
Build the capacity of value chain experts to provide agri-business support services to value chain actors
Expert

12. Value Chain Innovations to promote Commercialization
Facilitate investment in processing mac- hinery & fact-ories to produce diverse value-added products:
Improve access to financial credit and insurance products:
Improve quality management syst-ems to secure the quality and safety of cassava products for increased competitiveness
Link actors to Agriculture intervention loans, Commercial Agriculture Credit and Insurance Schemes.
Promoting adoption of sanitary and phytosanitary certification systems for plating materials.
Technologies and tools for assuring quality of differentiated products at field and factory levels in response to priority market opportunity (HACCP , Codex Alimentarius procedures , GAP, GMP, GHP, etc).
Establish collaboration for technology transfer and investment (e.g. machinery fabrication, starch modification, etc.)
CASSAVA CREDIT

13. TAAT Helping African Countries to shift to the next Cassava commercialization stage
Stage I
(Subsistence)
Stage II
(Learning/Transition phase)
Stage III
(Commercializing)
Stage IV
(Mature industry/ Industrialized)
Subsistence
production
Mixture of smallholders & large-scale farmers
Mixture of out-growers; mechanized large-scale production
Manual on-farm processing
Processing with small- scale machines (mostly by farmers’ associations)
Limited liability companies; partially mechanized processing plants
Automated or mechanized processing; biochemical processes for starch modification
Traditional foods
(boiled or roasted cassava, traditional chips & flour, etc.)
Upgraded traditional products
(gari, improved flour, etc.)
Upgraded traditional products; intermediate cassava products as inputs in other industries
(HQCF for baking, chips for ethanol or animal feed, industrial starch, etc.)
High quality branded traditional food products; export grade industrial or biochemical products (Ethanol, modified starch, glucose, maltose, adhesives, etc.).
Rural market
Urban market or supermarket
Growing urban market & Industry
Urban market, industry & export market orientation
Burundi, Angola, Malawi
DR Congo, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Zambia, Uganda
Nigeria
Ghana
Thailand 

14. We Aim to Shift Africa Towards Sustainable Agricultural Transformation
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