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CRARF Project: Linking
the production & marketing chain for development of smallholder
agricultural
commodities using Sesame as a model (SESAME)
Project
Manager :
University of Greenwich (NRI)
Contact:
Dr Rory Hillocks +44 1634
883303 r.j.hillocks@greenwich.ac.uk
Project
Partners
1. Naliendele
Agric Research Institute (Tanzania)
2.
Economic and
Social Research Foundation (Tanzania);
3. The
Savings
& Credit Cooperative Union League of Tanzania (SCCULT)
4.
TechnoServe Inc. (Mozambique)
5.
Instituto de Investigacao Agraria de Mocambique - Centro Zonal Nordeste
(IIAM)
Project Location :
Tanzania [Southern Zone – Mtwara
& Lindi Regions]
Grant
Amount €610,205
Project
Start Date :1 November 2006
Specific
objective
Increased
production and marketing of white
sesame by smallholders
Major
Activities
- Inception workshops to
assess stakeholders
perceptions and set the monitoring targets
- Baseline surveys to provide
socio-economic
and biological data on which to assess progress towards the project
objectives.
- Conversion of farmers groups
into SACCOs
- Expansion of community seed
production for
white sesame
- Develop links with export
companies and
sesame producersgroups
- Market survey in
Mozambiqueto evaluate the
present value chain
- Validate and promote ICM
systems for
profitable sesame production
- On-farm screening of white
seame varieties
- Evaluation of control
methods for sesame
flea beetle.
- On-farm validation of
improved planting
methods for sesame seed
- Survey of seame farmers and private sector export companies to assess
effect of current agricultural policy on investment in commercial
farming
- Use results from survey as
the basis to
recommend policy change; in final year follow-up on impact of any
policy
changes
- Develop communication
strategy and produce
information media.
- Exchange visits between the
two partner
countries to improve knowledge on market chain development and sesame
production technology.
- End of project stakeholder
workshop
- Writing and production of
final technical
report.
Reports &
Publications
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Southern African Development
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