Project Manager: Pieter Pypers
African Cassava Agronomy Initiative (ACAI)
Summary
The project seeks to increase the availability of appropriate and affordable technologies to sustainably improve short and long-term agricultural productivity in cassava in 5 countries from Sub-Saharan Africa. Sustainable Development Goals Contribution
Countries
Research Areas
Productive varieties and quality seed
Resilient crops
Nutritious food and added value
Sustainable Development Goals
Contribution
Countries
Research Areas
Productive varieties and quality seed
Resilient crops
Nutritious food and added value
Objectives
1. Building on effective partnerships and engaging national system scientists.
2. Improve cassava root quality and yields, and cassava supply to the processing sector.
3. integrating the tools, approaches, and learnings into new initiatives to benefit the wider research-and-development community involved in agronomy-at-scale and digital agronomy.
GOALS
African Cassava Agronomy Initiative
Deliver the necessary knowledge base and tools for accessing this knowledge to cassava scaling partners and ultimately farmers in the target countries while instituting the necessary capacity and skills for national system scientists to engage in transformative cassava agronomy.
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Project details
Date of project: From 2015 - To 2020
Crops:
Cassava 
Funds: USD 2,999,193
Funds: USD 2,999,193
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