📋 Tender Overview
PROJECT DETAILS
Project number:
2014.0131.4
Status:
running project
Responsible organizational unit:
G130 cooperation with business
Contact person:
Katharina Katterbach katharina.katterbach@giz.de
Partner countries:
Global projects, convention/sector/pilot projects
SUMMARY
Goals:
The potential for cooperation and innovation from cooperation between development cooperation and the private sector is valued for poverty reduction and food security in rural areas of developing countries.
Client:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Project partners:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Financier:
not available
PROJECT VALUE
Overall project:
16 924 999 euros
Current project:
16 924 999 euros
COMBINED FINANCING
Unilever PLC: 1,000,000 euros
PREDECESSOR PROJECTS
not available
SUCCESSOR PROJECTS
not available
DURATION
Overall project:
11/21/2014 - 11/30/2026
Current project:
11/21/2014 - 11/30/2026
OTHER STAKEHOLDERS
not available
CONTACT
project website
not available
DEVELOPMENT POLICY IDENTIFIERS
Participatory Development and Good Governance:
The project is not geared towards PD/GG or cannot (yet) be classified
Protection of the environment and resources, ecological sustainability
Project not aimed at environmental/resource protection or not (yet) to be marked
Gender Equality
Project has proven no potential to promote equality
poverty orientation
Self-help-oriented poverty reduction
CRS KEY
31120 Agricultural Development
EVALUATION
not available
PROJECT DESCRIPTION (EN)
Initial situation
Agricultural production in developing countries (EL) takes place predominantly in smallholder structures. Farming practices are based on traditional methods due to limited access to new knowledge, inputs and financing tools for family farms. The earnings potential of agricultural production can therefore not be fully exploited. At the same time, the low degree of organization of the smallholders and their weak connection to stable market and sales structures lead to inefficiencies and high losses along the value chains.
The small farms are seldom integrated into cooperatives or similar forms of organization, their negotiating position is thus weakened, and the insufficient market connection prevents their products from being marketed cheaply. They offer younger generations hardly any prospects in the agricultural sector. The result is an aggravation of the living conditions of the small farmers and their families, which are already characterized by poverty. The supply of affordable and healthy staple foods is also at risk for the population in remote rural areas.
Innovative approaches and partnerships between development cooperation and the private sector along the agricultural value chains are indispensable for resource-saving and socially acceptable food production, for increasing productivity through optimization, modernizatio
