Healthy And Sustainable Agriculture of Cassava in Nigeria (HASAC)

尼日利亚的HASAC(健康和可持续的木薯农业)项目为小农户改善了木薯的农业和食品体系。这个为期15个月的可行性项目将在奥约州的21个农场进行测试，每个农场占地5英亩(总面积40公顷)。卡萨瓦是世界上最重要的六种主食之一，尼日利亚是其在非洲的第一个生产国。然而，该国没有对作物的数量和质量进行充分的管理和监测，其价格非常不稳定，导致农民在作物的加工和使用以及农民参与价值链和最终向外部市场销售方面缺乏足够的开发。由学术合作伙伴UCL、尼日利亚的Amolexis和英国的AB5组成的财团将集中精力改善木薯栽培的管理和进入市场的途径，将试验田和技术与“让市场为穷人工作”(M4P)方法以及调整和转变出售食品和营销有效性的战略相结合。我们很高兴能够与当地发展机构OYSADEP合作，通过OYSADEP为我们项目的示范阶段提供农民和土地。该项目还将允许有效利用资源(如水、化肥和杀虫剂)，减少气候变化的影响。我们还感谢与国际热带农业研究所(热带农业研究所)就非洲木薯农艺倡议项目开展的合作。该项目由比尔·盖茨基金会资助，旨在通过宏观数据支持农民的决策过程，目的是为小农开发一种盈利模式，然后以自我可持续的方式复制，并为尼日利亚消除饥饿和贫困作出贡献。该项目将通过为农民提供工具和信息来发展他们的农场，并以最好的价格出售他们的收获，从而积极地为消除贫困做出贡献。出口和城市市场将特别受到关注。我们的目标是建立一个零废物农场，并将确保农场产生的废物最终可以回收利用。

"The HASAC (Healthy And Sustainable Agriculture of Cassava) in Nigeria project improves the agriculture and food system of cassava for smallholder farmers. The 15-month feasibility project will be tested in 21 farms of 5 acres each in Oyo state (total is 40 hectares).Cassava is one the six most important staple foods in the world and Nigeria is its first producer in Africa. However, quantity and quality of crops is not adequately managed or monitored in the country, its price is very volatile resulting in poor profits for farmers and lack of adequate exploitation, both in the processing and use of crops and in farmers' involvement in the value chain and ultimately, in the sale to external markets.The consortium composed of academic partner UCL, Amolexis of Nigeria, and AB5 of the UK will concentrate their efforts on better management and route to market of cassava culture, integrating test field and technology with a ""Making Market Work for the Poor"" (M4P) approach and a strategy to adapt and transform food for sale and marketing effectiveness. We are pleased to be able to collaborate of the local development agency OYSADEP, through which farmers and land for the demonstration phase of our project will be provided. The project will also permit to efficiently use resources (e.g. water, fertilisers and pesticides), reducing the impact of climate change. We are also grateful of a collaboration with International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) for the African Cassava Agronomy Initiative (ACAI) project. This project funded by the Bill Gates Foundation, aims at supporting the farmers' decision process through macro data.The aim is to develop a profitable model for smallholders, which can then be reproduced in a self-sustainable manner, and contribute to combat hunger and poverty in Nigeria. The project will actively contribute to fighting poverty, by providing farmers tools and information to develop their farms, and sell their harvest at the best price. Export and urban markets will be particularly targeted. We aim towards a zero-waste farm, and will make sure that wastes produced by the farms can eventually be recycled"