C:AVA GHANA PROJECT

C:AVA GHANA PROJECT

Cassava Adding Value for Africa (C:AVA) Project

Is a project being run by CSIR –FRI in collaboration with Greenwich University

(NRI –UK) .

AIM of the project is to use innovative interventions to capacitate farmers,

village processing units and market intermediaries to competitively deliver high

quality cassava-based products to a well sensitized marketIMPACTS

Poverty reduction, food security, post- harvest loss reduction, sustainable market linkages

-Name of Organization-

PROJECT OBJECTIVE Assist in poverty alleviation through creation of opportunities for generating and increasing incomes and improving the livelihoods of smallholder households / Farmers

Use innovative interventions to capacitate farmers, village processing units, SMEs and link them to sustainable markets

Ensuring food security by putting value on the crop cassava which is abundantly produced in Ghana and develop an effective cassava value/supply chain to reduce post harvest waste

Contribute to food security, foreign exchange earnings and the application of cost-effective food processing technologies.

To support and compliment any funded project that shares a common vision with CAVA for a better impact

WHY CASSAVA ????

Cassava is Ghana’s most highly produced crop and a main staple of the Ghanaian consumer diet.

Per capita consumption averaging 152. 9 kilograms per year.(FAO Report 2013)

Wide range of industrial uses that gives it huge potential to spur rural industrial development and raise rural incomes.

Source of food and food security

It is cultivated in almost every region in Ghana .

CASSAVA 22%

Contribution

Cassava production per region UPPER EAST

GREATER ACCRA 0%

1%

WESTERN CENTRAL BRONG AHAFO

5% 14%

20%

VOLTA NORTHERN

8%

11%

ASHANTI EASTERN

14%

27%

UPPER WEST

GHANA CASSAVA PRODUCTION BY REGION

UPPER WEST 0%

Cassava value chain

INTERVENTIONS

Since inception of the first phase of the project (C:AVA I ) from 2008 to date,

incomes and livelihoods of an average of 13, 900 smallholder farmers and

farmer groups from the project identified regions (Brong Ahafo and Volta) have

been improved through various intervention such as provision of the following:

Improved cassava variety supply

Capacity building - technical training on best farm and agronomic practices

Product Development

Sustainable market linkages

MARKET OPPORTUNITY

C: AVA also seeks to promote cassava from a subsistence crop to a cash crop. Public and private sector entities are recognizing the potential for cassava to play a major role in the economy of Ghana .

There exists a wide range of potential food and industrial applications for processed cassava .

High-quality cassava flour (HQCF) Kokonte - Cassava chips

High-quality industrial flour (HQIF) Gari - Agbelima - Cassava cake

Starch

Ethanol

glucose syrup

Animal & Poultry Feed

cassava has been identified as a potentially transformative crop in sub-Saharan Africa and in Ghana in particular. There is a significant and lucrative opportunity to be found in cassava processing if the challenge of rapid spoilage of the root can be solved.

USES & MARKETS CREATED

•TAKORADI FLOUR MILLS•GAFCO•IRANI BROTHERS•Tema Flour mills

•POLYKRAFT INDUSTRIES•WORDSWORTHY PRESS

SABMiller Ghana

Guinness Ghana

BENEFITS TO THE YOUTH

• Develop an enterprenuring attitude to start from some where within the chain. Farmer, processor, input supplier, or an end user.

•Technical training on product development and packaging

•Technology Transfer

•Group dynamics ( Farmer Groups, out-grower Schemes, block Farming)

•Linkage to Funding Agencies

•Linkage to sustainable Markets

•Incubation

•Linkage to consistent supply of raw materials.

Packaged cassava products

Cassava processing equipment

Flash Dryer

Press

MOBILE GRATER

THANK YOU!