October 2013

Contribution of the “Cassava: Adding Value for Africa” (C:AVA) project to income generation in Nigeria: The case of cassava farmers and processors in Ewekoro area of Ogun State

  This Research was about the effects of “Cassava: Adding Value for Africa” (C:AVA) project on cassava  farmers and processors in the Ewekoro area of Ogun state, Nigeria.  Respondent for this study were  selected from five groups of processors targeted by the project in the area. They consisted of five pure  cassava farmers and fifteen cassava...

Author(s): ODUNAYA Adewale Adeleke 

October 2013

Analysis of factors influencing cattle off-take rate and marketing in Ndiyona constituency of Kavango region, Namibia

  This paper presents an estimate of the cattle off-take rates in Ndiyona constituency of the Kavango region, north eastern communal area of Namibia and identifies marketing channels and strategies used by small-scale livestock farmers. The study used Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) to identify factors influencing cattle off-take rates. The results showed that cattle off-take rate of 6.14 percent for Ndiyona...

Author(s): S. G. Enkono, S. K. Kalundu and B. Thomas