Cassava Value Chain Development in Southern Africa

A Directory of Working Papers, Presentations, Survey Instruments, and Syntheses by Food Security Group Researchers at Michigan State University and Host-Country Collaborators

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Cassava Transformation in Southern Africa Top

• Task 1. Zonal Mapping of Food Staple Zones in Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. Steven Haggblade and Hunter Nielson. December 24, 2007.
• Task 2a. Cassava Productivity in Malawi. Jonathan Mkumbira.  March 2008.
• Task 2b. Cassava Productivity in Zambia. Jonathan Mkumbira.  March 2008.
• Task 2c. Cassava Assessment Handbook . FAO. October 2006 .
• Task 3a. Commercial Dynamics in Zambia’s Cassava Value Chain. Steven Haggblade and Misheck Nyembe. December 30, 2007.
• Task 3b. Structure and Dynamics of Malawian Cassava Markets. Patrick Kambewaa and Misheck Nyembe. February 2008.
• Task 4a. Cassava Technology Assessment and Food Safety in Zambia and Malawi: Baseline Survey. PAM and UNZA. March 25, 2008.
  • Processing Technology Component 4a of the CATISA Project Baseline Study Field Tools.
• Task 4b. Chemical and Food Safety Consequences of Cassava Processing. Linley Chiwona-Karltun and Leon Brimer.
  • Cassava entrepreneurship in Malawi: developing novel products and cassava food safety. Linley Chiwona-Karltun and Leon Brimer (presenter).

Malawi

• Cassava Commercialization in Malawi. Emma Kambewa. MSU International Development Working Paper #109. November 2010.

Mozambique

• Cassava Commercialization in Mozambique. Cynthia Donovan, Steven Haggblade, Venâncio Alexandre Salegua, Constantino Cuambe, João Mudema, and Alda Tomo. International Development Working Paper No. 120. December 2011.

Zambia Cassava Value Chain Development Top

Research Outputs

• Zambia’s Cassava Value Chain Positioned to Expand.  Acceleration of Cassava Utilization Task Force (ACU)
• Commercial Dynamics in Zambia’s Cassava Value Chain. Steven Haggblade and Misheck Nyembe. FSRP Working Paper No. 32. August 2008.
• A Value Chain Task Force Approach for Managing Private-Public Partnerships:  Zamiba’s Task Force on Acceleration of Cassava Utilization. Maureen Chitundu, Klaus Droppelmann and Steven Haggblade. FSRP Working Paper No. 21. Food Security Research Project. Lusaka, Zambia. December 2006.
• The Recent Cassava Surge in Zambia and Malawi. Conference Paper No. 9. 2003. by Steven Haggblade and Ballard Zulu. paper presented at the InWEnt, IFPRI, NEPAD, CTA conference “Successes in African Agriculture”, Pretoria, December 1-3, 2003

Research Outreach Presentations

• Background for the Launch of the ACU Working Group on Cassava Policy Issues. Steven Haggblade. ACU Task Force meeting. June 17, 2008. ACF Conference Room, Lusaka.

Background Publications

• Cassava Flour and Starch: Progress in Research and Development. D. Dufour, G. M. O’Brien and Rupert Best.  CIAT.
• Cassava Value Chain Analysis.  Lusaka: FAO. 2008. 
• A Study on Cassava Promotion in Zambia. Simwambana, Moses. Study prepared for the Task Force on Accelerated Cassava Utilization. Lusaka: Agricultural Consultative Forum and Agricultural Support Project. 2005.
• Commercialization of Cassava for Increased Food Security: Indicative Trends and Patterns towards Commercialisation.  Food and Agriculture Organization. 2005. Lusaka: FAO.
• Cassava – A Market Research Study. Langmead and Baker, Ltd. 2003.  Prepared for the Smallholder Enterprise and Marketing Programme (SHEMP).  Frangilla, Zambia: Langmead and Baker. 
• Improving Rural Households’ Livelihood Through Cassava Processing for Industrial Markets.  Mwasi, Douglas, Frank Chisamanga, and Alex Mapulanga. 2004Mt. Makulu, Lusaka: Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Department of Soils and Crops Branck
• Cassava as drought insurance: Food security implications of cassava trials in Central Zambia.  N Barratt, D Chitundu, O Dover, J Elsinga, S Eriksson, L Guma, M Haggblade,S Haggblade, TO Henn, FR Locke, C O’Donnell, C Smith & T Stevens.  Agrekon, Vol 45, No 1 (March 2006)
• Food Security Pack Project. Report on Sensory Evaluation of Bread. Simwambana, Moses. 2005. PAM. 2005. Lusaka Zambia.
• Building on Successes in African Agriculture: Recent Growth in African Cassava. Felix Nweke, Steven Haggblade, and Ballard Zulu. IFPRI 2020 Focus 12. Brief 3 of 10. April 2004

Recommended Web Site Resources

• CIAT Cassava Portal 
• Integrated Cassava Project (ICP) for Nigeria of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) 
• FIDARRIQUE – Roots and Tubers Resources
• CTA Cassava Portal
• Danforth Center -  Cassava Biotechnology Network  
• Clayuca (El Consorcio Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Apoyo a la Investigación y al Desarrollo de la Yuca ) 
  • Clayuca in English with machine translation