ReviewInternational journal of food science & technology2021
A review of varietal change in roots, tubers and bananas: consumer preferences and other drivers of adoption and implications for breeding.
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- A gamified choice experiment of traditional African vegetable varieties in West Africa.PloS one · 2026Article
- Gendered preferences for varieties and traits in Uganda's common bean value chain: insights for breeding programs.Humanities & social sciences communications · 2026Article
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- Integrating sensory evaluation into biofortification breeding: assessing consumer acceptance and market segmentation of porridge made from biofortified pearl millet cultivars.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Gender integration of agricultural innovation: implications for the genetically modified crop product development pipeline.GM crops & food · 2024Article
- Promoting new crop cultivars in low-income countries requires a transdisciplinary approach.Nature plants · 2024Article
- Farmer decision making for hybrid maize seed purchases: Effects of brand loyalty, price discounts and product information.Agricultural systems · 2024Article
- Genetic Variation and Heritability for Hydrogen Cyanide in Fresh Cassava Roots: Implications for Low-Cyanide Cassava Breeding.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Estimating seed demand in the presence of market frictions: Evidence from an auction experiment in Nigeria.Journal of development economics · 2024Article
- Varietal and trait preferences for boiled sweetpotato in urban Hanoi and implications for breeding.Food science & nutrition · 2024Article
- The tricot approach: an agile framework for decentralized on-farm testing supported by citizen science. A retrospective.Agronomy for sustainable development · 2024Review
- Understanding specific gender dynamics in the cowpea value chain for key traits to inform cowpea breeding programs in Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.Frontiers in sociology · 2024Article
- Gender analysis is not only about gender: reshaping the potato breeding priorities to increase varietal adoption in Kenya.Frontiers in sociology · 2024Article
- Examining gendered cassava trait preferences through commercial seed business: a case study of IITA GoSeed and Umudike Seeds in Nigeria.Frontiers in sociology · 2024Article
- Social incentives as nudges for agricultural knowledge diffusion and willingness to pay for certified seeds: Experimental evidence from Uganda.Food policy · 2023Article
- Gender mainstreaming in sweetpotato breeding in Uganda: a case study.Frontiers in sociology · 2023Article
- Targeting market segment needs with public-good crop breeding investments: A case study with potato and sweetpotato focused on poverty alleviation, nutrition and gender.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- Recent Advances in Molecular Improvement for Potato Tuber Traits.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- The pangenome of banana highlights differences between genera and genomes.The plant genome · 2022Article
- Market Intelligence and Incentive-Based Trait Ranking for Plant Breeding: A Sweetpotato Pilot in Uganda.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
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Abstract
This review of the literature on varietal change in sub-Saharan Africa looks in detail at adoption of new varieties of bananas in Uganda, cassava in Nigeria, potato in Kenya, sweetpotato in Uganda and yams in Côte d'Ivoire. The review explored three hypotheses about drivers of varietal change. There was a strong confirmation for the hypothesis that insufficient priority given to consumer-preferred traits by breeding programmes contributes to the limited uptake of modern varieties (MVs) and low varietal turnover. Lack of evidence meant the second hypothesis of insufficient attention to understanding and responding to gender differences in consumer preferences for quality and post-harvest traits was unresolved. The evidence on the third hypothesis about the informal seed system contributing to slow uptake of MVs was mixed. In some cases, the informal system has contributed to rapid uptake of MVs, but often it appears to be a barrier with inconsistent varietal naming a major challenge.
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