Project

Baseline Household Surveys and the Development of Analytical Tools to Manage Interventions to Mitigate the Spread of Cassava Mosaic Disease in Central and East Africa

Client

The UN Food and Agricultural Organization

Year

2008

Description

Kimetrica was contracted to undertake baseline household and community surveys, develop computerized tools for cassava and planting material system management, and develop analytical models for disease surveillance and programme management.

The baseline survey was undertaken by four of Kimetrica’s survey teams in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda and Uganda.  The data collected  established baseline information on cassava yields and utilization patterns, targeting methods for cassava interventions, measure the significance of cassava as a food security crop and establish the impact of cassava mosaic disease on crop yields. 

Computer tools for cassava and planting material management were developed to manage the supply chain process – from replication site to the farmer – to track infected materials and inform quality control procedures to be implemented in the supply chain process.

Analytical models were developed to track cassava mosaic disease progression and forecasting based on formal surveillance data from the Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWSNET), IITA and others and qualitative reporting from farmer groups.