CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas - RTB

Overview: FP4 - Nutritious RTB food and added value through postharvest intervention

FP3 - FP5


Leader Diego Naziri, International Potato Center - CIP

Team members: 60
Partner organizations: 30

Budget 2025
USD : 0

Clusters: 4

  Description
    
FP4 aims to harness the nutritional potential of RTB crops more widely and expand their utilization and add value through postharvest innovation.
  Atlas
    
   Key Results
    

Blog Outcome Impact Case Report Policy

Innovations

Cassava Agronomic Initiative allowed quantification of USD 31 M project value and 0.26 M farmers reach in Nigeria and Tanzania through a harmonized Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning system

Reporting year: 2021

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

CIAT, Uganda’s NaCRRI and IITA use a protocol developed by CIRAD to quickly measure the cooking time for cassava root and meet consumers’ demand

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

Efficient, small-scale flash dryers helped ten cassava processors to improve flour capacity production, income and profitability in Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria and Colombia

Reporting year: 2021

Over 100 small-scale processors, 20 medium-scale entrepreneurs and four feed millers in Nigeria produce animal feed from cassava peel waste, earning income while avoiding pollution

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

Private-public sector partnership established that a gender-equitable, economically-viable value-chain using orange-fleshed sweetpotato purée as a key processed productan ingredient is achievable and sustainable in Rwanda

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

Use of Efficient Small scale Flash Dryer by eleven private cassava flour/starch processors led to increased profitability in Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria and Colombia

Reporting year: 2020

Up to 50,000 Bangladeshi women and their households adopted better child feeding practices, and other health measures, while growing and eating OFSP (orange-fleshed sweetpotatoes)

Reporting year: 2020

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning platform adopted within and outside CGIAR

Reporting year: 2020

Agriculture-nutrition education and extension programs foster the adoption of biofortified crops in Kenya

Reporting year: 2019

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

Reporting year: 2019

Using biofortified sweetpotato to fight micronutrient malnutrition among vulnerable populations in sub-Sahara Africa

Reporting year: 2019

Successful scaling up of biofortified crops to fight against hidden hunger in Nigeria, Tanzania and surrounding region through strong advocacy efforts and supportive policy environment

Reporting year: 2018

IKYA Young women and men in Congo improve on-farm production and processing of cassava in 10 rural communities

Reporting year: 2017

Over 1,100 registered vine multipliers in 14 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa result in over half million households reached with improved sweetpotato

Reporting year: 2017

Nigeria and Tanzania promote food basket approach to fight against hidden hunger

Reporting year: 2017

Adoption of improved cassava varieties in Nigeria gives 82% productivity gain

Reporting year: 2017

Powering up Nutritious Food Production in India with Spatial Solutions

Publication year: 2016

High-Quality Cassava Peel for Animal Feed in Nigeria

Reporting year: 2021

Consumer Preferred and Nutritious Cassava-based Food Products in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria and Zambia

Reporting year: 2021

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

Gari Processing: Truck-mounted Mobile Cassava Processing to Bring the Factory to the Field in Nigeria

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

High-throughput Phenotyping Sweet Potato Leaves and Roots Protocols for Improvement in Storability in Ghana

Reporting year: 2021

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

Reporting year: 2021

An innovative Healthy Baby Toolkit to improve infant and young child feeding practices in Uganda

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

Low-cost and energy-efficient small-scale flash dryer for cassava in Nigeria, Colombia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Reporting year: 2021

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

Reporting year: 2021

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

Reporting year: 2021

Ambient ware potato storage technology in Uganda

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

Online Business Plan Tool to Assess the Economic Feasibility of Investment in Flash Dryers in Nigeria, Colombia and the Democratic Republic of Congo

Reporting year: 2021

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

Reporting year: 2021

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

Reporting year: 2020

Cassava genotypes with best physiochemical properties in Nigeria

Reporting year: 2017

High quality cassava peel for animal feed in Nigeria

Reporting year: 2020

Pro-Vitamin A rich cassava bread and other baked products

Reporting year: 2017

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

Reporting year: 2020

An innovative Healthy Baby Toolkit to improve infant and young child feeding practices for Ethiopia and Bangladesh

Reporting year: 2020

Low-cost and energy-efficient small-scale flash dryer for cassava

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

Recipe for the production of nutritious cassava-based snacks

Reporting year: 2019

Low-cost and energy-efficient small-scale flash dryer for cassava

Reporting year: 2019

Sweetpotato silage-based diet for animal feeding

Reporting year: 2019

High quality cassava peel for animal feed

Reporting year: 2018

Low-cost and energy-efficient small-scale flash dryer for cassava

Reporting year: 2018

Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato Purée for Bakery Applications in Kenya

Reporting year: 2018

Cassava Peel Tracker©

Reporting year: 2018

Participatory Market Chain Approach (PMCA)

Reporting year: 2018

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

Reporting year: 2017

Waxing: A technology for extending the shelf-life of fresh cassava roots in Africa

Reporting year: 2017

Sweetpotato silage-based diet for pig feeding

Reporting year: 2017

Consumer preferred and nutritious cassava-based food products

Reporting year: 2017

Regional Investments, Policies, Legislation and Advocacy Efforts on Food-based Approaches to Combating Micronutrient Deficiency in Sub-Saharan Africa: Focus on Biofortification

Reporting year: 2017

Nutrition and health education model for out-scaling the use of orange fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP)

Reporting year: 2017

Orange-fleshed Sweetpotato Purée for Bakery Applications in Kenya

Reporting year: 2017

High quality cassava peel for animal feed

Reporting year: 2017

Flash dryer for cassava

Reporting year: 2017
  Intermediate Development Outcomes (IDOs)/Sub-IDOs
    
IDO
  • Sub-IDO
      Indicators

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1.3-Increased incomes and employment
1.4-Increased productivity
2.1-Improved diets for poor and vulnerable people
B.1-Equity and inclusion achieved
C.1-Enabling environment improved
D.1-National partner and beneficiaries enabled
  Clusters
    
Code Cluster Name Leader Co-leader View
CC4.1 Demand-led approaches to drive postharvest innovation and nutrition improvements Bussie Maziya-dixon
CA4.2 Raising incomes and improving the health and safety at small and medium cassava processing centers, preferentially for women and youth in rural and urban areas Thierry Tran
CA4.3 Biofortified cassava varieties for improved nutrition and livelihoods Elizabeth Parkes
SW4.4 Nutritious sweetpotato for expanding markets and improving diets Frederick Kobina Ebo Grant
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