Increasing women’s access to land, financial services, and market information will generate income for rural households and diversify production of nutritious crops. To foster the sustainable competitiveness of the horticulture sector, the activity will work with local partners, including the private and public sectors of civil society, to increase smallholder productivity and market system profitability.
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APPROACH The activity will use a value chain approach to deliver good agricultural practices, basic technologies, and nutrition education to 40,000 rural households. Interventions will encourage the adoption of innovations at the farm level, and efficient business models at the market level will create a more broad-based distribution of benefits all along the chain, including the smallholder.
Farmer access to domestic and regional markets remains plagued by an array of constraints including disorganized and inefficient horticulture value chains. Low productivity among smallholders limits production and product diversification, and public sector extension support cannot effectively transfer basic business skills or improved technologies from research efforts to farmers. Women face even tougher challenges than men: access to land and finance is more limited and it is often more difficult for women to access inputs.
The purpose of Feed the Future Mboga na Matunda is to increase the competitiveness and inclusiveness of the horticulture subsector, while improving the nutritional status of Tanzanians by: 1. Scaling improved technologies and practices that lead to increased productivity of smallholders, including large numbers of women and youth, in targeted commodities. 2. Scaling market system models able to reach large numbers of direct and indirect beneficiaries, including vulnerable populations, while increasing trade for targeted commodities. 3. Strengthening the overall capacity of the industry