Enhancing breeding strategies for impact: gender and social dynamics in cassava and sweet potato value chains in Nigeria and Uganda

Nwanze, O., Iragaba, P., Alengo, E., Bello, A., Onwuka, S., Osaru, F., ... & Teeken, B. (2025). Enhancing breeding strategies for impact: gender and social dynamics in cassava and sweet potato value chains in Nigeria and Uganda. Ibadan, Nigeria: IITA, (93 p.).

This report was prepared in the scope of the gender and breeding work within the RTB breeding project funded by the Gates foundation. This report shows the results of gender insights along the value chains of cassava, and sweet potato of the Roots Tubers and Banana crops carried out in Nigeria and Uganda as part of the gender and breeding work within RTB breeding project, a Gates funded project. This report functions as a source to juxtapose with data from participatory processing evaluation and processing diagnostics with renowned processors, evaluation by buyers in the market’s social space, through market auctions, as well as with consumer testing in rural and urban areas.