James Legg

🇰🇲🌿Cassava Leaves 🌿🇰🇲

#Cassava leaves are hugely nutritious if we'll prepared, have up to 40% protein by dry-weight & are rich in vitamins A, B1, B2, C & fibre. They are super-popular in #Comoros, making pest/disease surveillance a challenges as top leaves are often missing!!

🧠 Brainstorming Time🧠

Govt. of Mozambique rep highlights the key need for ramping up RTB contributions to economic development in strategic areas
➡️ Encourage businesses
➡️ Build a Finance plan
➡️ Encourage aggregation
➡️ Invest in Market-oriented RTB
@FAOMozambique @Cipotato

🍠 Boosting Potatoes 🥔

Bester Mudereri highlights major successes being achieved in #potato & #sweetpotato seed production in #Rwanda. Strong recommendations include commercialising the focus, making use of new technologies, & lesson learning across RTBs
#CIP @Cipotato #IITA

🌱 #PROSSIVA at #AFSF 🇷🇼

Delphine Amah, lead of the Programme for Seed System Innovation in Africa (PROSSIVA), describes how new work on this RTBs project is aiming to strengthen linkages between seed & root producers with industrial processing off takers @IITA_CGIAR @TheAGRF

🌿 Better Cassava for All 🌱

Or 'Muhogo Bora' in Swahili is presented by Kiddo Mtunda. She describes how the #cassava seed system in Western #Tanzania is being opened up to promote involvement of women & youth as entrepreneurs @TARITZ10 @IITA_CGIAR @CornellGlobal @tzDiscovery