AfrII’s CAVA project impacted over one million persons –youths, women and men, who directly and indirectly benefitted from the project. The beneficiaries are; Small Holder Farmers (SHFs), Community Processing Groups (CPGs) and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) who processed their own or procured Fresh Cassava Roots (FCRs) from SHFs; bulking agents who purchased either cassava grits or chips from processors and milled them into flour to sell to end users; Workers and employees of smallholder and commercial cassava farmers, processing end use industries, and flour millers and traders.

The CAVA project worked across the cassava value chains, specifically focusing on increasing smallholders’ productivity; expanding and developing processing capacity; and expanding products options, market opportunities and geographies. CAVA was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation through the Natural Resources Institute-University of Greenwich, UK.

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