Training Posters from our Micro-dosing project in Mali

 
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In recognition of the growing importance of sorghum as a strategic crop in East Africa for food security and improved livelihoods, East African Breweries Limited (EABL), the Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) and EUCORD have entered into a partnership to jointly promote the sorghum sector through research, development, supportive policies and capacity building. The project will be funded to the tune of USD 2.6 million over a four year period and will be implemented in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. This public-private partnership aims to develop a stable and high quality sorghum supply chain that will increase incomes of sorghum farmers and enable national beverage industries to substitute imported grains by locally produced sorghum by:

1)  improving the productivity of the sorghum sector through the introduction of new sorghum varieties and cultivation practices;
2)  organizing and strengthening producers groups through technical training and facilitating access to inputs and credit;
3)  introducing out-growers schemes by facilitating collaboration between medium and large commercial farmers and surrounding groups of smallholder farmers; and
4)  strengthening private sector input providers and intermediary long-distance traders through the facilitation of contractual arrangements, introduction of ware-house receipt credit and other credit provisions and business development training.
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