Farm to Market Alliance (FtMA) works through a demand-led approach to sustainably improve farmer livelihoods and develop commercial viability of players in the value chain. FtMA promotes the growth of viable smallholder farmers through strategic part...

The Kenya Crops and Dairy Market Systems Activity (KCDMS) is a five-year USAID program funded activity under Feed the Future, a U.S. government’s global hunger and food security initiative. The initiative’s goal is to help increase agr...

The Feed the Future Enabling Environment for Food Security (EEFS) project recently launched an analytical guidance document identifying the enabling environment factors that drive animal source food (ASF) market system success in terms of economic gr...

Agriculture holds the key to broad-based economic growth, poverty reduction and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This is due to the importance of the sector for SSA economies, the extent of rural poverty and the dependence of 50 million sma...

A value chain is a connected string of companies, groups and other players working together to satisfy market demands for a particular product or group of products. In recent times, Financial Institutions are more interested in financing various acto...

Food safety is everyone’s business – and it’s the businesses that make up food systems that are the cornerstone for providing safe food. Today's food systems are increasingly more global, diverse and complex, involving an array of businesses from sub...

The cashew sector forms the core of Guinea-Bissau’s economy. Data from 2010 household survey show that cashew accounts for 26 percent of income (net of remittances) for female headed households and for 35 percent for male headed households. As such,...

The World Bank’s Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Program supports the growth of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the agribusiness sector. In Tanzania, the program is establishing a new Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Center (AEC) that will provide...