Creating sustainable rural income and employment through business development
Objective: Enable poor rural producers in Mozambique, Tanzania and Kenya to increase their incomes and assets through enhanced production and marketing of cashew. TechnoServe will build a pro-poor competitive cashew industry in East and Southern Africa via: 1) Production: Increased smallholder access to production and marketing resources; 2) Processing: Establishment of rural value-adding processors as sustainable providers of markets, employment and production assistance while enabling existing processors to be more competitive; 3) Enabling environment: Improvement of national and regional relationships and policy environments to improve the competitiveness of the industry.
| Implemented by |
TechnoServe
(TechnoServe)
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| Dates |
Mar 2008
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Feb 2008
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| Countries |
Tanzania
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| Project Scope |
Multi-National
Local/Community
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| Project Target |
Private enterprises
Government ministries
Farmers and farmer groups
Cooperatives, associations, federations
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| Documents |
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| Contact |
Thom Dixon
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