Building the next generation of farmers Supporting capacity-development of African Farmer’s Organisations through improved Policies, Technologies and Capabilities Workshop , 6-7 November 2018, Brussels

1. Supporting capacity-
development of African
FO through improved
Policies, Technologies &
Capabilities (2016-2018)

2. A partnership to leverage new
opportunities
Supporting capacity-development of African Farmer’s Organisations
through improved Policies, technologies and Capabilities
• Component 1: Farmers’ organizations membership registration
systems
• Component 2: Promoting Agribusiness development with a
focus on youth and women
• Component 3: Advocacy and policy awareness

3. Component 1: Farmers’ organizations
membership registration systems
• Membership information is essential for FO's to develop adequate
services for their members & to manage their position in VC
• It is important that farmers’ organizations can own data and
improve ways of collecting it
• Engaging youth in smart agriculture including precision farming
• Burkina Faso (FEPAB), Kenya (EAFF), Lesotho and Swaziland
(SACAU) and Cameroun (PROPAC), CAPAD (Burundi). Partners
include Agriterra, Afdi, CSA.

4. Component 1: Farmers’ organizations
membership registration systems
• Putting in place data policies and systems in FOs
• Developing value propositions for data-driven products and
services to attract investors, and build trust and confidence
• Ensuring services are tailored to farmers’ needs
• Validating certification & traceability data to meet standards that
open markets, satisfy consumers and provide trade opportunities;
• Building trust among FOs and ethical ownership of data
• Registering and profiling farmers, agri-producers, customers and
other value chain actors cost-effectively
• Building capacity all along VC to upscale agri-data services

5. Component 1: Farmers’ organizations
membership registration systems
• Awareness sessions (public campaigns & radio, WhatsApp, SMS)
on the purpose of data collection
• Training of enumerators to capture profile information through
interviews, meetings, geolocations (with tablets & mobile phones)
• Information on farmers’ personal data, location, crop, production,
access t fertiliser, finance, and business information is collected
• Data collected is transferred to digital platforms established by the
FOs and used for crop protection diagnosis, extension advice, early
warning alerts, market information, certification & traceability
• Support to FOs capacity building for data analysis & visualisation

6. Component 1: Farmers’ organizations
membership registration systems
• With SACAU building an electronic membership data system for
the Swaziland National Farmers’ Union and Lesotho National
Farmers’ Union. By December 2016, a total of over 43,766
farmers had been profiled in Swaziland (21,8380) and Lesotho
(21,928). WFP buying from Lesotho farmers union and Swaziland
Govt giving support to registration
• Project E-Granary with EAFF : agronomy support system for the e-
extension. Call centre to provide support to farmers registered in
the e-granary (partnership with Safaricom). Platform has more
than 100,000 farmers Mid July 2018. 1,156 TOTs to cascade
information to farmers members of the 28 farmer groups that are
working with e-granary

7. Component 1: Farmers’ organizations
membership registration systems
• Project AGRITIC with FEPAB (Burkina Faso - West Africa)
• Promotion of ICTs for a more efficient maize sector in Burkina
Faso. Use ICTs to increase the efficiency of the services provided
by FEPAB to farmers and reinforce entrepreneurial capacities; pilot
experiment on the use of drones for the collection and analysis of
information concerning the state of development and the possible
presence of stress states in the crop
• Up to 400 young maize producers from the two provincial unions
trained in the use of ICT in agriculture. 15 maize producers in the
Houet province will benefit from experimentation with drones

8. Component 1: FOs membership
registration systems
NUCAFE Uganda: 213 Member farmer associations/Coops. 200,000
farming households constituting over 1,000,000 farmers .
Addressing data, ICT needs of empowering 200,000+ Coffee farming
households spread across Uganda. Geospatial database; use of
drones; VC platforms & apps ; Access to finance platforms and apps
Technology securing traceability of coffee, improve marketing
transparency & adequate rewarding of the farmers
Enabling compliance to certifications Fairtrade, organic, UTZ, Gis
Spatial data base used with the EC worthy 1.2 Million € to reach
21,000 farmers from Mt. Rwenzori Region for GIs

9. Component 1: FOs membership
registration systems
Igara Tea Factory Uganda: 7,325 tea farmers 83% are shareholders.
180tons/day (2 factories) 700 employees at 2 factories.
Establishing spatial database through purchase of equipment, training
in enumeration and data management.
Emphasis on farmer communication of project and establishing data
agreement for rights. GPS mapping 4.5k farmers.
2018 Highest return of leaf to the factory for 15 years
New SACCO credit office established serving 1200 farmers
Collection points mapped and reorganised. Increase to 2950 farmers
receiving fertiliser credit. 2% rise in repayments in 1st year.

10. Making data work for smallholder farmers

11. Making data work for smallholder farmers

12. Component 2: Promoting Agribusiness
development
It is critical to improve market access for value-added products for
small-scale producers by linking them to markets, access technology
for processing and distribution, financial services, and information
and integrate small-scale producers into supply chains and PPPs.
Focus:
(i) entrepreneurship skills dev for small-scale farmers & SMEs
(ii) strengthening institutional capacity of FOs as drivers of change
(iii) improved market access for small-scale farmers
(iv) access to adapted finance schemes

13. Component 2: Promoting Agribusiness
development
Youth panel at the HLM2 in Nairobi (Global partnership for effective
cooperation) (2016) 2nd High-Level Meeting, 2016, Nairobi, Kenya, 28
November - 1 December 2016
4th PAFO continental Briefing (2016) at the 2nd Pan African Agri-
Business Incubators Conference and Expo, Accra, Ghana, 4-9 October
2016. Was the opportunity to organize the 1st PAFO Youth Forum
during which a PAFO strategy for Youth was elaborated
Support was provided to 50 young farmers, ICT providers,
agripreneurs from the various African regions which benefited from
business exchanges and were also presenters to selected sessions.

14. Component 2: Promoting Agribusiness
development
SOCOOPMATPA “Strengthening the entrepreneurial capacities of
cassava-producing women in Cameroon - Access to the hotel and
restaurant markets”
Support the entrepreneurial development of women producers and
processors for better access to the hotel and catering markets.
- Acquisition of processing technology
- Trainings and certification
- Branding and product design
- Training of chefs (partnership with the national Chefs Association)
- B2B and business forum and gastronomic fair

15. Component 3 : Advocacy and Policy
Awareness
Two Brussels Development Briefings organised
• BB n.45 on “Smart and Affordable farming solutions for Africa: the
next driver for agricultural transformation”
• BB no. 49 on “Youth in agribusiness: shaping the future of
agriculture
Two panels at the European Development Days 2017
• Youth in Agribusiness: promoting job creation in Africa
• Investing in women entrepreneurs

16. 16
Infopoint Session on Digitalisation for
Development: Benefits for Farmer’s
Organisations, co-organised with the EC
Increasing private-sector
investment in agriculture
Intra-regional trade opportunities
20% in Africa , 78% in the EU , 60% in Asia
African economic growth: 5% year, 10
fastest growing economies
Smart-farming
and Youth in
agribusiness
Continent share of
FDI has doubled
Rising food
imports (US$40
billion per year in
Africa). Intra-
African markets
only 34% of
agricultural
exports
Four-fold
increase
in urban food
markets by 2030
US$1 trillion
Agriculture
as a business
Innovative financing models for
agricultural value chains (blending…)

17. 17
D4D Prize Digital for Development
Increasing private-sector
investment in agriculture
Intra-regional trade opportunities
20% in Africa , 78% in the EU , 60% in Asia
African economic growth: 5% year, 10
fastest growing economies
Smart-farming
and Youth in
agribusiness
Continent share of
FDI has doubled
Rising food
imports (US$40
billion per year in
Africa). Intra-
African markets
only 34% of
agricultural
exports
Four-fold
increase
in urban food
markets by 2030
US$1 trillion
Agriculture
as a business
Innovative financing models for
agricultural value chains (blending…)