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Emergency Relief, Crop Diversification and Institution Building: The Case of Sesame in The Gambia

Emergency Relief, Crop Diversification and Institution Building: The Case of Sesame in The Gambia This article examines the case of the Catholic Relief Service’s (CRS) sesame support programme in The Gambia which has spanned more than 25 years. It outlines the transformation process from relief to development and the role that the production of an agricultural commodity, sesame, has played as a key building block. Following the drought of the 1980s, concerns to move away from dependence on food aid first led to agronomic trials of imported oilseed, then to the selection and dissemination of improved sesame varieties accompanied by an elaborate and costly support programme. This gradually developed into a long–term development–oriented intervention, paving the way for the development of a national women’s farmers’ organisation. The paper provides a case study of an intervention that has gone beyond the provision of seed to address agronomic research and extension, policy, marketing and institutional issues necessary for successful crop diversification. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Disasters Wiley

Emergency Relief, Crop Diversification and Institution Building: The Case of Sesame in The Gambia

Disasters , Volume 26 (4) – Dec 1, 2002

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
Overseas Development Institute, 2002
ISSN
0361-3666
eISSN
1467-7717
DOI
10.1111/1467-7717.00213
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Abstract

This article examines the case of the Catholic Relief Service’s (CRS) sesame support programme in The Gambia which has spanned more than 25 years. It outlines the transformation process from relief to development and the role that the production of an agricultural commodity, sesame, has played as a key building block. Following the drought of the 1980s, concerns to move away from dependence on food aid first led to agronomic trials of imported oilseed, then to the selection and dissemination of improved sesame varieties accompanied by an elaborate and costly support programme. This gradually developed into a long–term development–oriented intervention, paving the way for the development of a national women’s farmers’ organisation. The paper provides a case study of an intervention that has gone beyond the provision of seed to address agronomic research and extension, policy, marketing and institutional issues necessary for successful crop diversification.

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DisastersWiley

Published: Dec 1, 2002

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