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Developing value chain innovation platforms to improve food security in east and southern Africa

Although smallholder farmers are responsible for most agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa, the majority of them remain poor and marginalised. A decade of economic growth throughout the East and Southern Africa region is reshaping food value chains as income, urbanization and demographics impact agricultural markets, but the opportunities for many smallholders, especially women, to benefit from these value chains remain elusive. One reason relates to failures of traditional approaches to innovation in agriculture, especially the top down, linear design of extension systems. This research focuses on identifying what makes value-chain Innovation Platforms (IPs) that incorporate value chain development strategies successful; in terms of institutional, technological, market and policy factors, that determine the IP performance, and how the establishment of IPs, can be most cost-effectively scaled up across a range of contexts.

Project ID

AU-5-O15924-UG

Activity status

3 - Completion

Aid type

D02 - Other technical assistance

% to Uganda

100.00

Organisations

Implementing

Name Withheld

Funding

AUSTRALIA

Extending

Australia - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

CRS code	%
Forestry research (31282)	100.0