Anthony Egeru, Patrick Okori and Megan Lindow
PART I Lessons and voices from the CARPs
1 Designing for relevance: a new orientation for research
Anthony Egeru, Megan Lindow and Patrick Okori
2 Building value chain innovation platforms with communities
Megan Lindow, Anthony Egeru and Kay Muir Leresche
3 Universities fit for purpose
Megan Lindow, Anthony Egeru and Kay Muir Leresche
4 Learning in motion
Megan Lindow, Anthony Egeru and Kay Muir Leresche
5 Change agents, ripple effects, wider impacts
Megan Lindow, Anthony Egeru and Kay Muir Leresche
6 Facilitating a student and community-centred, experiential approach to research and innovation
Nancy Mungai, Duncan Ongeng, Patience Mshenga and Megan Lindow
PART II The specific impacts of each of the fifteen Community Action Research Platform projects implemented 2016–2022
7 Enhancing agribusiness rice clusters and market linkages for food security and incomes in northern Uganda
Basil Mugonola, Apollo Kasharu, Jimmy Lamo and Daniel Ogwang
8 Enhancing safflower production and product development for food security and improving incomes of small-scale farmers in Botswana
Vallantino Emongor, Bamphiti Tiroesele and Onkgolotse Moatshe-Mashiqa
9 Sustainable commercial pineapple value chain system for increased yield and income, and improved livelihood of smallholder farmers in Central Region, Ghana
Festus Annor-Frempong
10 Empowerment and poverty reduction in rural coastal Kenya through the cassava value chain
Agnes Mwang’ombe, Samwel Onyango, D. C. Kilalo and P. Waswa
11 Unlocking opportunities in the cassava CARP value chain project in Nakuru County, Kenya
Richard M. S. Mulwa, Joseph W. Matofari, Joshua O. Ogendo, Peter F. Arama and Bockline O. Bebe
12 Seed potato production in Nakuru, Kenya: outcomes and implications of an active multi-stakeholder platform
Anthony Mwangi Kibe, Mariam Mwangi and Agnes Oywaya Nkurumwa
13 Inclusion of farmer communities in value chain development: a case of potato in South-western Uganda
Johnny Mugisha, Peter Wasswa, Napoléon Heri Bahati-Kajunju and Abel Atukwase
14 Enhancing pig production and marketing for smallholder farmers in northern Uganda
Elly Kurobuza Ndyomugyenyi, Tony Aliro and Walter Odongo
15 Building competitiveness for communal farmers through developing the wool value chain in the Free State Province of South Africa
Jan W. Swanepoel
16 Climate-smart agriculture: improving dryland crop yields and value addition through university–community partnership in Zimbabwe
Ronald Mandumbu, George Nyamadzawo, Wadzanayi Innocent Nyakudya, Agathar Kamota and Friday N. M. Kubiku
17 Enhancing community adaptation through climate-resilient agriculture: Encroacher bushes value chains initiative in Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia
Simon Angombe, Cecil Togarepi, John Mupangwa and Hikevali Ndinomuwa
18 The empowerment of women and youth: enhancing climate-smart productivity of vegetables and key livestock value chains, Sudan
Muna Mohamed Elhag, Tafaol E. Ali, Lubna M. Musa, Igbal E. I. Mohamed, Mutasim A. M. Elagab and Ali E. Eljack
19 Strengthening the beekeeping value chain in Western Kordofan State, Sudan
Ahmed Idris, Ali Mohamed, Asma Hamad, Ruhama Abdallh, Osman Khmis and Hana Mohammed
20 Improvement of indigenous coping strategies in famine-stricken Darfur, Sudan
Elhadi A. I. Elkhalil, H. A. H. Osman, A. E. M. Elzein, E. M. Mohammed and E. E. A. Ahmed
21 Scaling up African baobab food products valuation through enhancement of their safety and value chains for food and nutritional security in Benin, West-Africa
Achille E. Assogbadjo, A. Hounkpèvi, K. V. Salako, Flora J. Chadaré, R. Idohou, Rodrigue C. Gbèdomon and R. Glèlè Kakaï
