Creating impact in the lives of smallholder farmers

The Financial Inclusion for Smallholder Farmers in Africa Project (FISFAP) is a joint collaboration between AgroCenta and Pan African Savings & Loans with backing from the Africa Green Revolution Alliance (AGRA).

The SAPA Project in partnership with Farrelly & Mitchel, an agribusiness consulting company will drive the adoption and growth of AgroCenta’s digital platforms for more than 20,000 smallholder farmers in the 5 Northern Regions of Ghana.

Poultry keeping is an important activity for many sub-Saharan African countries in terms of the proportion of the population involved, value of income generated, and dietary contribution.

The GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator Fund in 2018, funded AgroCenta to build, test and deploy its digital financial services platform (Lendit) to boost the service offerings AgroCenta deploys to rural smallholder farmers.

The SBEP will work with shea collectors to co-design a journey that will transform them from ad hoc, informal operators, into well-structured small businesses.

Through a market-driven approach, IDH and AgroCenta will work closely with 12 SMEs in maize, rice, and millet supply chains in Northern Ghana (hereafter referred to as ‘prioritized value chains’) to improve business operations, build technical and management capacity, structure sourcing of high-quality grains from smallholder farmers, and to support these SMEs in meeting the buying requirements of large multinational off-takers (such as Nestlé).