Our Objectives
Marando Bora sought to directly improve the food and nutrition security of at least 150,000 families by providing farmers with quality seed of improved sweetpotato varieties in a timely fashion.
Objective 1: To provide farmers with quality seed of improved sweetpotato varieties in a timely fashion
Objective 2: To promote quality vine conservation among farmers
Objective 1: To provide farmers with quality seed of improved sweetpotato varieties in a timely fashion
Activity 1: Identify and assure supply of pre-basic seed of best white and orange-fleshed sweetpotato varieties.
-Transfer and hardening of pre-basic seed.
Activity 2: Establish nuclear seed (PMS/SMS/) multiplication sites and supply producers’ groups (TMS-DVMs) with basic seed.
-Establishment and management of PMS and SMS
-Establishment and management of the DVMs
-Characterization of DVMs and seed production
Activity 3: Train and backstop groups in seed production using quality management protocols and voucher management
-Community sensitization sessions
-Pest and Diseases Awareness
Activity 4: Implement voucher distribution and provide farmers with information about varieties and seed availability
-Dissemination of planting materials through DVM model
-First and revised voucher printing
-Formation of vines dissemination committees
-Inventory and dissemination plans
-Community sensitization meetings
-Dissemination of planting materials through primary schools
-Mass dissemination model
-Meetings with local authorities
-Community sensitization and dissemination plans
-Coordination of harvesting, transport and dissemination
Activity 5: Monitor seed acquisition and planting by variety across farmer types and agro-ecologies
-Monitoring the DVM model
-DVMs monitoring tools
-Mass dissemination monitoring tools
-Field harvesting and planning sheet
-Vines dissemination sheet
-Monitoring by CIP monitors
-Field verification by CRS East Africa Regional Office
-Monitoring by CRS SASHA staff
Objective 2: To promote quality vine conservation among farmers
Activity 1: Provide extension advice about variety choice positive selection (i.e. only retaining vines for re- planting that are free of virus and other disease symptoms), and vine conservation
-DVMs production plots as innovative learning centers
-Public meetings
-Field days with farmers
-Establishment of 16 conservation sites in districts where mass dissemination model was implemented
-Conservation at DVM level
-On-station vine conservation
Activity 2: Implement participatory demonstration yield plots for positive selection, choice of variety and seed source
-Planning and review meetings