The need for continued participation of the various stakeholders calls for coordination of activities. Major emphasis need to focus on the following activities in collaboration with all partners in cassava and sweetpotato development:

• Demonstration, popularisation and dissemination of processing equipment to farm families, private processors and linking them with potential consumers for the products. Local artisans will be used in order to sustain the availability of these machines.

• Development, demonstration, popularisation and dissemination of value added products from cassava and sweetpotato which will enable farmers utilize the crop better and get higher prices on the market.

• Organizing farmers into groups and associations for purposes of producing, processing and trading in root crops products to strengthen their bargaining power for better prices.
  
• Identifying and exploiting local and/or export market opportunities for root crops based products and linking producers and processors to these markets.

• Continuing producing and distributing pathogen-free planting materials of improved varieties of cassava and sweetpotato.
  
  
• Using farmer field schools as a tool of enhancing crop husbandry practices at all stages of applied research and development in all angles

• Carrying out adaptive on-farm testing of elite cassava and sweetpotato clones, which are in the pipeline for release to provide an opportunity for farmers to participate in selecting varieties which best suite their needs and the environment they live in within SARRNET region.
  
  
• A certain level of technical support will have to continue to be required in the multiplication and dissemination of planting materials and adaptive on-farm research which will lead to release of more superior varieties to sustain the commercialization of root crops.
  
  
• Varieties have a boom and burst cycle, new pests and diseases problems emerge; as they get solved, others appear. There is need to safeguard these varieties from the new problems for instant, the Ugandan variant of mosaic disease which is threatening cassava production in Eastern Africa. It is already reported in Tanzania and many SADC countries.
  
  
• Producing and distributing messages/pamphlets/guides on cassava and sweetpotato production, processing and utilization through government services, NGOs and other media.