1. Group 2b: Processing technologies and value chain for small scale and household processors
Sunday Idahosa
Farouk Kuraw
Basil Esinulo
Ayominde Akindolie
Makinde Kehinde
Ralph Okalanwa
Peter Oladele Kolawole
Thierry Tran
Andrew Westby
Samuel Ayeni
Onoja Aneh
Samuel Taiwo

2. Group 2b: Processing technologies and value chain for small scale and household processors
Small-scale: Processing centers, e.g. Oyo. Processors purchase roots delivered by farmers and middlemen.
Household: Family operation (typically women and children) processing own roots with grating and roasting operations conducted at communal private operator.

3. General goals Improving livelihoods of farmers and processors
Food security
Income
Affordable and good quality products
Environmental sustainability in processing

4. Specific challenges Farm level Processing
Low yields / Access to high yielding varieties
Perishability of roots
Logistics: Transport and road infrastructure
Processing
Tedious, inefficient; Unhealthy wood fire smoke
Access to suitable, affordable, small-scale machinery
Easy maintenance
Energy availability
Child labour
Quality management

5. Specific challenges Environment Cross-cutting Disposal of peels
Liquid waste
Unhealthy processing environment
Cross-cutting
Maintaining women’s livelihood
Access to finance
Lack of market organization
Communication channels among stakeholders / Supply chain management
Business management skills
Slow adoption of technology

6. Solutions & knowledge gaps
Community ownership: Co-create solutions with involvement of community
Farm level
Involve and train farmers on seed selection and agronomic practices
On-farm processing or proximate processing facilities
Including communal facilities
And/or better road infrastructure and transport facilities
Processing
Efficient and ergonomic machine design
Inclusive design integrating the expectations of processors
Demonstration & training for processors: Operation & maintenance
Availability of electricity
Child labour: Mechanization reduces need for labor and increases incomes to send children to schools?

7. Solutions & knowledge gaps
Environment
Technology available to process peels into animal feed (HQCP)
Liquid waste: Solutions to explore
Cross-cutting
Work with women processors to develop shared vision of the future of gari processing
Innovative financing to purchase machines: Micro-credit organizations
Branding, certification, standards
Mobile phone service (SMS, app) to circulate information among stakeholders
Capacity building on business management
Identify factors slowing down adoption of technology

8. Key issues Factors slowing down or blocking adoption of innovations?
Where is the power to make decisions?
In the household / In the community of processors
Where goes the added value of processing?
Income distribution within the household
Repartition of incomes between processors
Approach to create a dialogue among shareholders leading to a consensus on possible improvements of gari value chains

9. Gender and equity dimensions
Reduce drudgery and processing time for women
Reduce exposure to unhealthy conditions (smoke, contaminated wastewater)
 Mechanization
Maintain incomes and employment of women
 Work with women to find solutions that do not threaten women’s access to incomes and employment

10. Next steps
Overall approach: Demonstrate working solutions with partner processing centers and households
Co-development of the solution with processors
How many: 6-12?  1-2?
Concept note 3-5 years project
Business case
Work packages: Relations with partner centers and households, Technical solutions; Coordination
How to involve fabricators of equipment to distribute new technology
Contacts to identify processing centers and households to implement the project
Pre-test technologies to strengthen the business case
List of possible changes, to validate with processors community
Mobilization of resources and execution of project
Project outputs:
Improved processing solutions at partner processing centers and households
Lessons learned on how to implement sustainable change

11. Next steps
New project cycle for expansion - 5 years