The programme seeks to create economic opportunities for poor rural people. It works with smallholder and landless households to develop value chains for three high-value agricultural commodities: coffee, honey and horticulture products. These value chains have significant potential for reducing poverty and increasing economic growth through export market expansion and rural job creation. The programme will also promote microbusinesses to meet demand for goods and services in rural areas.

The participants include coffee producers with small terraced landholdings, smallholder farmers, sharecroppers, and landless households interested in protected horticulture, mobile honey production and rural small businesses. Women constitute the key target group for microbusinesses.

 

Source: IFAD