Sorghum Value Chain Business Case Development

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cg.contributor.affiliationBioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agricultureen
cg.contributor.affiliationFinancial Access Consulting Servicesen
cg.contributor.donorWorld Banken
cg.coverage.countryKenya
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KE
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
dc.contributor.authorAccelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africaen
dc.contributor.authorFinancial Access Consulting Servicesen
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-12T21:09:59Zen
dc.date.available2023-01-12T21:09:59Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/127000
dc.titleSorghum Value Chain Business Case Developmenten
dcterms.abstractSorghum production is vital to the country’s food security and can play a major role in improving the livelihoods of farmers in arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL). Being a drought resistant crop that can tolerate extreme temperatures and flooding conditions, it offers farmers in ASAL regions a better alternative to generate higher incomes compared to other staples such as maize and wheat. Despite this, uptake of sorghum farming has been slow with production lagging demand nationally. Most farmers have yet to adopt the good agricultural practices (GAP) necessary to boost production. 84.4% of sorghum farmers in Makueni utilize uncertified seeds from their own stored sources while 30.9% of them grow the crop without any fertilizer. The AICCRA project seeks to remedy this by developing a climate-smart lending business case that will encourage financial institutions to lend to these farmers. The business case shall facilitate the formulation of a pilot lending scheme involving a Partner Financial Institution (PFI) covering the semi-arid counties of Kitui and Makueni in Lower Eastern Kenya.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationAICCRA, FACS. 2022. Sorghum Value Chain Business Case Development. AICCRA Report. Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA).en
dcterms.extent33 p.en
dcterms.issued2022-09en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseOther
dcterms.publisherAccelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africaen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectclimate-smart agricultureen
dcterms.subjectsorghumen
dcterms.subjectdevelopmenten
dcterms.typeReport

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