The Great Lakes Cassava Initiative is a Catholic Relief Services sponsored project with a focused effort in Africa's Great Lakes Region. The mission of GLCI, since 2007, has been to alleviate the effects of two cassava-disease pandemic-outbreaks which have greatly reduced harvest yields on one of the most important food and cash crops for the people of this region. The goal of GLCI is to establish a cassava seed system and to produce disease tolerant cassava seed, helping insure food and income security for nearly seven million people in six countries: Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Carl D. Walsh spent a month documenting the efforts of GLCI, and the African subsistent farmer beneficiaries, both in words and photographs, to produce this journal and other material for their fundraising and publicity uses.
