📋 Tender Overview
PROJECT DETAILS
Project number:
2014.0131.4
Status:
running project
Responsible organizational unit:
G130 Cooperation with the private sector
Contact person:
Annika Powitz annika.powitz@giz.de
Partner countries:
Global projects, convention/sector/pilot projects.
SUMMARY
Goals:
The cooperation and innovation potential from the collaboration between development cooperation and the private sector is leveraged to reduce poverty and ensure 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
ORDER VOLUME
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if applicable)
16 924 999 euros
Current project:
16 924 999 euros
COMBINED FINANCING
Unilever PLC: 1 000 000Euro
PREVIOUS PROJECT
not available
SUCCESSOR PROJECT
not available
DURATION
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if applicable)
21.11.2014 - 30.11.2026
Current project:
21.11.2014 - 30.11.2026
OTHER PARTIES INVOLVED
not available
FURTHER INFORMATION
Project website
not available
DEVELOPMENT POLICY IDENTIFIERS
not available
CRS KEY
31120 Agricultural development
EVALUATION
not available
PROJECT DESCRIPTION (DE)
Initial situation
Agricultural production in developing countries (DC) is predominantly carried out by small-scale farmers. Agricultural practices are based on traditional methods because access to new knowledge, resources and financing instruments for family farms is limited. The yield potential of agricultural production cannot therefore be fully exploited. At the same time, the low level of organization of small-scale farms and their weak connection to stable market and sales structures lead to inefficiencies and high losses along the value chain.
Small-scale farms are rarely integrated into cooperatives or similar organizational forms, their negotiating position is thus weakened, and the inadequate market connection prevents them from marketing their products cost-effectively. They offer younger generations few prospects in the agricultural sector. The result is a worsening of the already poverty-stricken living conditions of small farmers and their families. 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 chain are essential for resource-saving and socially acceptable food production, for increasing productivity through optimization, modernization and professionalization of agricultural operations, as well as for the domestic food industry. Nevertheless, the use of the cooperation and innovation potential of cooperation between development cooperation and the private sec
