About - GIAE

Overview

The Special Initiative “One World No Hunger” has been launched in 2014 by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in Germany with the objective to increase food security and combat poverty and therefore supporting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Under the Special Initiative, the Global Programme “Green Innovation Center for the Agriculture and Food Sector” (GIAE) aims, on the one hand, to increase the productivity and income of smallholders and on the other to strengthen small- and medium-sized enterprises by promoting the market-oriented development of agricultural value chains. The concept of the GIAE follows a holistic approach and places focus on the identification and fostering of innovations, dissemination of know-how and technology solutions and skills upgrading.

Overview

Activities in Nigeria

Knowledge and information sharing on innovation be-tween research and advisory institutions, cooperatives and associations, improving the distribution of innovations.

Introduction of innovations in cultivation, such as crop rotation, mechanised tillage, improved varieties and the correct use of fertilisers and pesticides.

In the Farmer Business Schools, smallholders learn business fundamentals based on many practical examples, which they then transfer to their own farms.

Advising Nigerian companies to improve processing and make it more economical.

Our Goals by 2024

Increase in income by an average of 22 % (rice and maize), 18 % (cassava and potato) for 170,000 smallholder farms.

Employment growth with at least 1000 new jobs created, of which 50% are newly created jobs for youth and 35% for women.

Increase in productivity per unit area by an average of 22 % (rice and maize), and 30 % (cassava and potato).

Education and training programmes: 250,000 smallholder farmers and managers of companies up- and downstream of the value chain benefit from trainings and advisory services.

Information services: Additional 400,000 farmers are reached using information and communication technologies.

Target groups: Smallholder farmers in rural districts and managers and employees of upstream and downstream businesses. Focusing particularly on women and young people.

Regions: We work in the states of Benue, Kano, Kaduna, Nasarawa, Plateau, Ogun, Oyo and Cross River.

Value chains: Rice, maize, cassava and Irish potato.

Timeframe and budget: €21.3 million by 2023.

Political funding partner: Nigerian Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD).

Our Goals by 2019

Increase in income by an average of 22 % (rice and maize), 18 % (cassava and potato) for 170,000 smallholder farms.

Employment growth with at least 1000 new jobs created.

Increase in productivity per unit area by an average of 22 % (rice and maize), 30 % (cassava and potato).

Education and training programmes: 200,000 smallholder farmers and managers of companies up- and downstream of the value chain benefit from trainings and advisory services.

Information services: Additional 400,000 farmers are reached using information and communication technologies.

Target groups: Smallholder farmers in rural districts and managers and employees of upstream and downstream businesses. Focusing particularly on women and young people.

Regions: We work in the states of Benue, Kano, Kaduna, Nasarawa, Plateau, Ogun, Oyo and Cross River.

Value chains: Rice, maize, cassava and Irish potato.

Timeframe and budget: €17 million by 2021.

Political funding partner: Nigerian Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD).