CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas - RTB

Overview: CC4.1 - Demand-led approaches to drive postharvest innovation and nutrition improvements

CA4.3 - SW4.4


Leader Bussie Maziya-dixon, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture - IITA

Team members: 25
Partner organizations: 14

Budget 2024
USD : 0

Activities/Products:  6


  Key Documents
    
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   Key Results
    

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Innovations

Successful piloting of the Farmer Business School approach led to changes in curriculum and investment by the Department of Agriculture in the Philippines for increasing the income of smallholder farmers

Reporting year: 2021

130 Farmer Business Schools help in creating and diversifying livelihood opportunities for 3,500 women and men farmers in four Asian countries

Reporting year: 2021

130 Farmer Business Schools help in creating and diversifying livelihood opportunities for 3,500 women and men farmers in four Asian countries

Reporting year: 2020

The application of the Participatory Market Chain Approach (PMCA) stimulated inclusive innovation in diverse value chains benefiting over 100,000 smallholders in Peru and elsewhere

Reporting year: 2020

Farmer Business Schools help in creating and diversifying livelihood opportunities for women and men farmers in Asian agri-food systems

Reporting year: 2019

Crop Wastes of Root, Tuber and Banana turned into Animal & Fish Feed in Nigeria and Uganda

Reporting year: 2021

Extending Root, Tuber and Banana Storability using 1-Methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) Postharvest Technologies in Uganda

Reporting year: 2021

Effect of respiration of cassava roots during storage with insights about controlling post-harvest physiological deterioration through control of respiration and ethylene production in Uganda

Reporting year: 2021

Nutritional and Antinutritional Information and Labels for Root, Tuber and Banana based products in Zambia

Reporting year: 2021

Specifications for the Right Packaging and Storage of Root, Tuber, and Banana-based Products in Nigeria

Reporting year: 2021

Sensory and Consumers Preference Traits for Roots, Tubers, and Banana Crops and Based Products in Zambia, Mozambique and Kenya

Reporting year: 2021

Sampling Protocols and Near-Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy (NIRS) Calibration Models as Breeding Tools for Screening of Roots, Tuber, and Banana Crops for Quality Traits in Uganda and Peru

Reporting year: 2021

Ambient ware potato storage technology in Uganda

Reporting year: 2021

Packaging materials and storage conditions suitable for high carotenoid plantain flour in Uganda

Reporting year: 2021

High throughput phenotyping (HTPP) tools for screening postharvest quality traits in improved cassava genotypes in Uganda

Reporting year: 2021

Farmer Business school (FBS) to generate inclusive value chains for the pro-poor agri-enterprise development in Asia

Reporting year: 2020

Packaging materials and storage conditions suitable for high carotenoid plantain flour in Uganda

Reporting year: 2020

Participatory Market Chain Approach (PMCA): A Process to Facilitate Collaboration among Value Chain Stakeholders

Reporting year: 2020

Sweetpotato silage-based diet for animal feeding in Uganda

Reporting year: 2020

Optimum harvest time and green shelf life for banana (matoke) in Uganda

Reporting year: 2020

Ambient ware potato storage technology in Uganda

Reporting year: 2020

Recipes for healthy snacks and other plantain-based food products

Reporting year: 2019

Farmer Business school

Reporting year: 2019

Sweetpotato silage-based diet for animal feeding

Reporting year: 2019

Participatory Market Chain Approach (PMCA)

Reporting year: 2018

Gender sensitive M&E tool for the Participatory Market Chain Approach

Reporting year: 2017

Sweetpotato silage-based diet for pig feeding

Reporting year: 2017
  Activities/Products
    
Code Activity/Product Name Leader Co-leader Total Outputs Output types View
CC4.1.0 Strategic priorities for CC4.1 Bussie Maziya-dixon Sarah Mayanja 2
CC4.1.1 Consumer profiles and quality characterization of RTB’s for targeting end-user preferences Bussie Maziya-dixon Sarah Mayanja 13
CC4.1.2 Product development, improved processing, and nutrition interventions of bananas, potato, and yam Bussie Maziya-dixon Sarah Mayanja 3
CC4.1.3 Post-harvest technologies and management options for RTB post-harvest loss reduction and value-addition to waste products Bussie Maziya-dixon Sarah Mayanja 7
CC4.1.4 Inventory and information dissemination platforms for RTB post-harvest technologies Bussie Maziya-dixon Sarah Mayanja 2
CC4.1.5 Tools, protocols, and models for gender- and youth-responsive innovation and communication Bussie Maziya-dixon Sarah Mayanja 3
  Projects
    
Acronym Project Title Year Section Leader Center Budget Start Date End Date View
  Outcomes and Impact
    
Code Outcomes and Impact Type Indicators View
DO4.1.1 Urban and rural consumers eat a wide range of safe fresh and processed RTB foods as part of healthy diets development outcome 2
RO4.1.1 Food providers incorporate nutritious RTB foods in daily meals especially for vulnerable households members research outcome 1
RO4.1.2 Health, education, agriculture stakeholders massively implement food-based nutrition programs to promote RTB foods as part of diverse and healthy diets with focus on women and young children research outcome 5
RO4.1.3 Small scale processors, especially women use guidelines and incorporate improved technologies research outcome 0
RO4.1.4 Researchers, government agencies, SMEs target technology to reduce postharvest losses to value chain segments and localities where most cost effective research outcome 1
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