NRI has a large number of projects in the area of root and tuber crops that involve development impact, research, and capacity building. Examples of recent projects are given below:
Development Projects
- BMGF: Cassava: Adding Value for Africa (Phase II)
- BMGF: Cassava: Adding Value for Africa (http://cava.nri.org/); project video at http://vimeo.com/66396976
- Harvestplus: Reaching End Users Vitamin A sweet potato (http://www.sweetpotatoknowledge.org/project/harvestplus-reaching-end-users-orange-fleshed-sweetpotato-project/)
- BMGF: Yam Improvement for Income and Food Security in West Africa (YIIFSWA) (http://voices.nationalgeographic.org/y/)
Research
- BMGF: The Whitefly Project : Long Title: African Cassava Whitefly: Outbreak Causes and Sustainable Solutions (http://cassavawhitefly.org)
- CGIAR: Driving Livelihoods Improvements Through Demand Orientated Interventions for Competitive Production and Processing RTBs
- EU FP7: Gains from Losses of Root and Tuber Crops (GRATITUDE)
- EU FSTP: Improving the livelihoods of smallholder cassava farmers through better access to growth markets (CassavaGmarkets) (http://cassavagmarkets.nri.org)
- BMGF: Commercializing clean sweetpotato seed production in areas with a long dry season
- BMGF: Accelerated Development of On-Farm Robust Diagnostic Toolkits for Yam Virus Diseases (Toolkits for Yam)
- FCDO BBSRC: How resistant plant varieties avoid suppression of RNA silencing by viruses exemplified sweetpotato
- EU African Union: Limiting the Impact of Cassava Brown Streak Disease on Smallholders, Women and the Cassava Value Chain (LimitCBSD)
- BMGF: Enabling Research Tools for Cassava Virologists and Breeders
- Harvestplus - Measuring the true retention of Vitamin A during gari processing from yellow-fleshed cassava in Nigeria
- DEFRA: Link Project: Reducing Energy Usage and Wastage by Improving Ethylene Control of Potato Sprouting
Capacity Building
- EU ACP Science and Technology: Science and technology for enhancing the contribution of Tropical Root Crops to development in ACP countries (http://projects.nri.org/tropicalroots/)
Word cloud below illustrates some of our project activities