FOCUS ON AGRICULTREFrom Scaling to Impact

Interplay between social businesses, social entrepreneurs, investors & corporations

• Uganda’s agriculture sector comprises 23% of GDP and employs over 80% of the labor force; 83% of the sector workers are women

• The Feed the Future (FTF) is a $150 million initiative for five years focusing on the maize, coffee, and beans value chains

• FTF’s model for including smallholder farmers is the “facilitative model”

USAID/Uganda’sFeed the Future Initiative

Overall objective?• To increase the quantity and

quality of coffee, maize, and beans that produced and sold to raise incomes

Why the facilitative model?• To improve the market system through the private sector,

rather than providing unsystainable direct support to smallholders

How?• Build trust and win-win relationships

between value chain actors• Increase agronomic and business

skills of market actors to better serve farmers

• Provide innovative solutions to promote good agriculture practices in production and post-harvest handling

• Harness private sector investment to support farmers

Exporters

Traders, Producer Organizations, and

Processors

Village Agents

Farmers

Facilitative ApproachExpedite behavior change in market

systems

Production Input supply Supply chain Entrepreneurship Financial Business operations Market linkages Storage and post harvest

handling Innovations ICT to reduce transaction

costs

Build the capacity of Middle Value Chain Actors in the following services:

Through trusted relationships between inputsuppliers and offtakers, rural families can increaseincomes

Agrisectors Most Attractive to Social Investors (and Youth)?• Issues:• Youth don’t have assets (e.g. land)• Youth desire quick returns and mobility

• Emerging Answer:• Agriservices: spraying, tilling, processing, irrigation,

input brokers, etc.• Opportunity for ICT integration for scaling