To enhance opportunities for employment and income generation in the agriculture and food sector as well as improving regional food supply, GIAE is promoting innovations for small-scale farming enterprises in addition to the up and downstream enterprises along selected agricultural value chains on the way to trigger a sustainable transformative process in the sector.
Agriculture as a business:
Smallholders increase their income by combining entrepreneurial and technical training (Good Agricultural Practices & Farmer Business Schools).
Trainings to strengthen the entrepreneurial skills of producer groups (Cooperative Business School)
Strengthening the entrepreneurial skills of rice and cassava processors (Processor Business Schools)
Innovations for more income:
Widespread training on good agricultural practices (GAP) and post-harvest practices
Dissemination of innovations via mobile applications
Dissemination of information on GAP, processing and entrepreneurial topics via the internet, videos, radio and television
Inclusive business models:
Strengthen participation of smallholders in the value chain
Promotion of partnerships between smallholder farmers and upstream and downstream companies
Cooperation with financial institutions to provide financial support to SMEs and smallholder farmers
Mechanization:
Business model development together with mechanization service providers to improve their services
Innovative mobile processing and packaging unit (MOCAPI) to give cassava micro-processors access to mechanization
MOCAPI:
The Mobile Cassava Processing unit (MOCAPI), is a service support for micro and small scale cassava processors.
Cooperation for higher impacts:
Cooperation with agricultural advisory and training centers as multipliers.
To enhance opportunities for employment and income generation in the agriculture and food sector as well as improving regional food supply, GIAE is promoting innovations for small-scale farming enterprises in addition to the up and downstream enterprises along selected agricultural value chains on the way to trigger sustainable transformative process in the sector.
Agriculture as a business:
Smallholders increase their income by combining entrepreneurial and technical training (Good Agricultural Practices & Farmer Business Schools).
Trainings to strengthen the entrepreneurial skills of producer groups (Cooperative Business School)
Strengthening the entrepreneurial skills of rice and cassava processors (Processor Business Schools)
Innovations for more income:
Widespread training on good agricultural practices (GAP) and post-harvest practices
Dissemination of innovations via mobile applications
Dissemination of information on GAP, processing and entrepreneurial topics via the internet, videos, radio and television
Inclusive business models:
Strengthen participation of smallholders in the value chain
Promotion of partnerships between smallholder farmers and upstream and downstream companies
Cooperation with financial institutions to provide financial support to SMEs and smallholder farmers
Inclusive business models:
Strengthen participation of smallholders in the value chain
Promotion of partnerships between smallholder farmers and upstream and downstream companies
Cooperation with financial institutions to provide financial support to SMEs and smallholder farmers
Mechanization:
Business model development together with mechanization service providers to improve their services
Innovative mobile processing and packaging unit (MOCAPI) to give cassava micro-processors access to mechanization
MOCAPI:
The Mobile Cassava Processing unit (MOCAPI), is a service support for micro and small scale cassava processors.
Cooperation for higher impacts:
Cooperation with agricultural advisory and training centers as multipliers.