[Cassava] Adding value to cereals, roots and tubers: developments and opportunities in small-scale enterprise in Africa

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Adding value to cereals, roots and tubers: developments and 
opportunities in small-scale enterprise in Africa. D Bruinsma. 1999 - 
101 pp. CTA  - 2,3 MB
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This report is the result of a long-term CTA study on the important 
position occupied by storage and processing operations in the commodity 
chain, from agricultural production to consumption. The study provides 
an overview of existing technologies for cereals, and roots and tubers 
in Africa and identifies developments in the food marketing chain with 
economic potential for producers. The products covered by the study 
include maize, millet and sorghum, rice, cassava, potato, sweet potato, 
and yam. Many of the processing technologies described are household 
based. The potential for processed foods such as flour, grits, couscous, 
and pasta lies mainly in the urban markets, which need to be understood.
The study did much to orient CTA down the road of market forces and 
market information studies. This is a detailed overview indeed, which 
giddily darts across the continent from paragraph to paragraph. It may 
leave the reader gasping at the ease with which the author assumes that 
a technology or an experience can apparently jump from country to 
country. But for a researcher or commodity chain analyst who is looking 
for a descriptive narrative of the sector, with references across the 
French-English language divide, this study report is a useful tool.
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