The challenge. Agricultural programmes must reach large numbers of smallholder farmers, link them to finance and markets, and persuade lenders that agriculture is worth the risk.
How we help. Value chain and programme design, risk-sharing and blended finance mechanisms, outgrower scheme design, farmer and implementation team capacity building, and programme coordination.
Our experience. Capacity building for IFAD’s Value Chain Development Programme across 9 states; the NIRSAL field programme across all 774 local government areas; MIFA-TIRSAL in Togo; FAO blended finance advisory in Angola and Mozambique; the NFD AGRO soyabean outgrower scheme in Jigawa State; and work connected to the AfDB-funded Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones programme.
