FIPS - resources for smallholder farmers, low cost farm inputs
Impact – set out in the business plan October 2009
Expected outcomes
Lessons
This Best Bet is likely to provide lessons including:
Impact – set out in the business plan October 2009
Expected outcomes
- To improve the food security of 1.5 million smallholder farmer families (7.5 million people) in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania
- To establish ten networks each of 150 village-based agricultural advisors in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, to deliver, on a sustainable basis, new fertilizer blends and crop varieties, and information on improved crop and livestock management practices to small-holder farmers
- To disseminate FIPS-Africa's extension messages to up to 10 million young Kenyans through the ShujaazFM initiative
Lessons
This Best Bet is likely to provide lessons including:
- how to create awareness amongst smallholder farmers of the benefits of new and appropriate technologies, such as improved varieties of crops
- how to create awareness amongst seed and fertilizer companies about the potential for growth in the smallholder market
- how to create effective linkages between private sector input suppliers and national agricultural research centres, on the one hand, and smallholder farmers on the other, which facilitate putting research products into use
| FIPS progress report showing how the Best Bet is being delivered. March 2010 |  |
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