ABSTRACT
The CARP Potato project in Uganda was motivated by the lack of farmer access to quality seed potato, inefficiency in farm resource use and limited value addition to potato tubers. The project used participatory methodologies and an innovation platform that enabled the communities and value chain actors to identify and test alternative interventions to choose from. The project improved the seed potato value chain, found intercropping of potatoes and beans to be economical and sustainable for land-constrained small farms, and developed products that were able to turn discarded small tubers into valuable consumer products that are gluten free and accepted by consumers. The project built the capacity of the communities and the actors along the potato value chain with over 1,730 farmers involved. It also built the capacity of staff, 61 students of the participating TVET Institution, and seven post-graduate students. The CARP strengthened the relationship between the University, TVET Institution, the farming community, government and civil society agencies, and the private sector.
