1. C:AVA GHANA PROJECT

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

3. 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
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4. industrial development and raise rural incomes.
WHY CASSAVA ????
Cassava is Ghana’s most highly produced crop and a main staple of the Ghanaian consumer diet.
Per capita consumption averaging 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

5. GHANA CASSAVA PRODUCTION BY REGION
UPPER WEST 0%

6. RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS
Cassava value chain
PROCESSORS
FARMERS
NGOS
TRANSPORTERS
END USERS
RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS
GOVT
INPUT DEALERS

7. 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

8. 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.

9. FLOUR MILLING AND BAKERY
USES & MARKETS CREATED
MARKET OUTLETS
FLOUR MILLING AND BAKERY
PLYWOOD
TRADITIONAL FOODS
PAPERBOARD
BISCUITS
Now.. Brewery industry
PARLAYS BISCUITS
FAIRBON BISCUITS
TAKORADI FLOUR MILLS
GAFCO
IRANI BROTHERS
Tema Flour mills
Pharmaceuticals
Textiles
Paint
Confectionaries
Glucose syrup
SAMATEX
BONDPLEX
HANMAX
ABTS SAWMILLS
OTI YEBOAH CO. LTD
ELSA FOODS
NEAT FOODS
PRAISE EXPORT
POLYKRAFT INDUSTRIES
WORDSWORTHY PRESS
SABMiller Ghana
Guinness Ghana

10. 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.

11. Packaged cassava products

12. Cassava processing equipment
Flash Dryer

13. Press

14. MOBILE GRATER

15. THANK YOU!