Author:
Ojwang Sylvester Okoth,Okello Julius Juma,Otieno David Jakinda,Mutiso Janet Mwende,Lindqvist-Kreuze Hannele,Coaldrake Peter,Mendes Thiago,Andrade Maria,Sharma Neeraj,Gruneberg Wolfgang,Makunde Godwill,Ssali Reuben,Yada Benard,Mayanja Sarah,Polar Vivian,Oloka Bonny,Chelangat Doreen M.,Ashby Jacqueline,Hareau Guy,Campos Hugo
Abstract
Crop breeding programs have often focused on the release of new varieties that target yield improvement to achieve food security and reduce poverty. While continued investments in this objective are justified, there is a need for breeding programs to be increasingly more demand-driven and responsive to the changing customer preferences and population dynamics. This paper analyses the responsiveness of global potato and sweetpotato breeding programs pursued by the International Potato Center (CIP) and its partners to three major development indicators: poverty, malnutrition and gender. The study followed a seed product market segmentation blueprint developed by the Excellence in Breeding platform (EiB) to identify, describe, and estimate the sizes of the market segments at subregional levels. We then estimated the potential poverty and nutrition impacts of investments in the respective market segments. Further, we employed the G+ tools involving multidisciplinary workshops to evaluate the gender-responsiveness of the breeding programs. Our analysis reveals that future investments in breeding programs will achieve greater impacts by developing varieties for market segments and pipelines that have more poor rural people, high stunting rates among children, anemia prevalence among women of reproductive age, and where there is high vitamin A deficiency. In addition, breeding strategies that reduce gender inequality and enhance appropriate change of gender roles (hence gender transformative) are also required.
Funder
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Cited by
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