About spill in and spill over effects
The
advantage of PRAPACE networking is to minimize shortage
of resources and ensure more economic use of the scarce
resources, and creating opportunities for making market
products available regionally, and outside the network.
The case of potato in Rwanda better illustrates the point.
In 1988, high yielding potato varieties developed in Rwanda
were availed to the Uganda National Potato Program; these
varieties now constitute over 30% of the potato grown in
that country.
Conversely, following the turmoil in Rwanda in 1994 the
CGIAR under the "Seeds of Hope" obtained potato
seed from Uganda and re-distributed them in Rwanda. Similarly,
through the KARI-CIP collaborative programs, the Kenya National
Potato Program in 1996 assisted in the revival of breeding
and seed programs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Currently, the KARI-CIP program undertakes rapid germplasm
multiplication through tissue culture facilities in Muguga
for other national programs. These activities not only facilitate
germplasm exchange but have made quarantine regulations
less cumbersome.
PRAPACE
spill-over is both within and outside the region. Externally,
there is information exchange and joint training with
other networks (e.g with EARRNET and ECABREN) creating
cross fertilization between the networks.
For example, PRAPACE has contributed internationally by
making available pathogen-free sweetpotato germplasm from
the region's rich pool of local land races. There has
also been collaboration with SARRNET on sweetpotato.
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