Approach

Diagnosis and planning

Implementation

Farming systems – different resources/potentials

Marketable commodities – which ones?

Value chain actors roles and linkages

Design

Production, input/service, processing and marketing interventions

Various knowledge management interventions operational

Service providers and farmers capacitated for market oriented development

Linkages between producers, other value chain actors and service providers operational

Change to commercially oriented agriculture using modern technologies

Alternative input supply , service delivery systems and marketing intervetions operational

Role of extension starts changing from input supplier to knowledge broker and facilitator of linkages

At regional and federal level

EAP operational and increased understanding of the importance of knowledge for development

Selected regional and federal level staff capacitated for market oriented development

Role of commercially oriented value chain actors can be the engine for development

Key areas for future development, to increase production in the Districts:

Regional/federal level support system

Supply of inputs and services and