| Step I
Critical functions | Step II
Current/potential actors | Step III
Specific roles |
| | Input supply | Agroinput dealers at district and regional levels | Increase access to production inputs,
processing implements, machines. |
| | Seed access | Vine multipliers, MoFA, CSIR-CRI, CSIR-SARI, CIP, NGOs | (i) Ensure adequate supply of vines of
improved cultivars to growers.
(ii) Provide facilities in increase the number of vine multiplication gardens. |
| | Production | Farmers, FBOs, WIAD-MoFA, MoFA, RTIMP-MoFA, CSIR-CRI, CSIR-SARI, CIP, NGOs, donor agencies | (i) Increase production to satisfy the rapidly
expanding markets and consumer demand.
(ii) Enhance access to improved production
technologies. |
| | Processing and value addition | Processors, WIAD-MoFA, MoFA, CSIR (CRI, SARI, FRI), CIP, NGOs, Faculties of Agric., Food and Nutrition Department of universities and Polytechnics | (i) Processing into stable preservable forms.
(ii) Development of new recipes.
(iii) Training on new recipes and utilization.
(iv) Research into health and nutritional benefits. |
| | Extension and technology dissemination | MoFA, RTIMP-MoFA, CSIR (CRI, SARI, FRI), CIP, NGOs, Community Radio Stations | (i) Increase access to improved production
technologies.
(ii) Development of improved preservation and
storage methods. |
| | Research and development | CSIR (CRI, SARI, FRI), CGIAR (CIP, IITA), Faculties of Agric., Food and Nutrition of universities and Polytechnics, RTIMP-MoFA, Community Radio Stations | (i) Increase access to improved production
technologies.
(ii) Development of new recipes.
(iii) Development of improved preservation and
storage methods. |
| | Commercialization and utilization | MoFA, CSIR (CRI, SARI, FRI), CIP, NGOs, WIAD-MoFA, RTIMP-MoFA, GHS, MoTI, GEPC, Community Radio Stations | (i) Sensitization on health benefits.
(ii) Explore and promote export to foreign markets.
(iii) Development and promotion of new recipes. |
| | Marketing and distribution | Traders, transport unions, departmental stores, CSIR (CRI, SARI, FRI), CIP, NGOs, WIAD-MoFA, RTIMP-MoFA, MoTI, GEPC, Community Radio Stations | (i) Expand domestic distribution to new areas.
(ii) Target many institutional consumers.
(iii) Explore and promote export to foreign markets. |
| | Resource mobilization | Donor agencies such as USAID, AGRA, WAAPP, IFAD, RTIMP-MoFA, CIDA, UNICEF | Fund mobilization and strengthening the
technical and resource capacities of partners,
national agriculture research, extension
systems. |
| | Other collaborators | NGOs (CRS, WV, ACDEP, CDP, IDE, UNICEF), Tuskegee Univ., Pennsylvania State Univ., Hellen Keller Int. Commercial banks and Microfinance Institutions | (i) Fund mobilization and strengthening the
technical and resource capacities of partners,
national agriculture research, extension
systems.
(ii) Sensitization on health benefits.
(iii) Development and promotion of new recipes. |
| | Regulation and quality assurance management | GSA, FDA, MoFA-PPRS, GEPC | (i) Regulation and compliance to quality
assurance systems.
(ii) Food safety, inspection, monitoring.
(iii) Phytosanitary issues and management. |
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