Mozambique, Smallholder Farming, and Technology
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This document summarizes an agribusiness program in Mozambique that provides training and support to smallholder farmers. The program addresses challenges smallholders face like low yields, limited market access, and lack of information. It does this through hands-on education, data-driven guidance, and helping farmers organize into cooperatives to access larger markets. Over six years, the program has seen outcomes like decreased mortality rates for chickens by half and increased production five-fold. It aims to continue scaling its model of combining offline training with ongoing online support.
Mozambique, Smallholder Farming, and Technology
- 1. Mozambique, Smallholder Farming, And Technology Presented at Tokyo Changemakers By Paul Lam (@Quantisan), InGrower Mobile
- 2. Anders Frigaard, Business Manager Akil Muss¨¢, Software Developer Edrisse Muss¨¢, Software Developer Alexander Cha¨²que, Field Manager Paul Lam, Software Manager Jose Machado, Project Director
- 3. Supported by
- 5. Maputo
- 6. Maputo
- 8. Moamba
- 10. 267 hectares
- 17. We are an agribusiness school
- 19. Vicente with his new farm back at his home
- 20. Agribusiness Program Timeline - graduate - Saved US$5000 - Start home business - 800 chickens - Start school - Start training - Seed capital 2 years0 month 2 months 20 months
- 22. Agriculture Employee vs Entrepreneur Field employee ¡ñ No capital requirement ¡ñ Minimal skills requirement ¡ñ Average salary $1500 per annum Smallholder entrepreneur ¡ñ Asset Accumulation ¡ñ Scalability ¡ñ Average income $3300 per annum with 1 chicken house
- 23. Why raise chickens ¡ñ Easy and inexpensive to care ¡ñ A good investment ¡ñ Can keep the children healthy ¡ñ Empower women Why I Would Raise Chickens, Bill Gates, https://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Why-I-Would-Raise-Chickens
- 25. All that can go wrong...
- 26. Business potentials for agri-business in Africa ¡ñ Fertile land ¡ñ Availability of work force ¡ñ Attractive markets ¡ñ Funding availability
- 27. Smallholder farmers are at a disadvantage ¡ñ Limited ability to meet market standards ¡ñ Low crop yield and low volume of sales ¡ñ Poor market information and contacts Source: World Bank http://blogs.worldbank.org/africacan/how-can-we-help-smallholder-farmers-seize-opportunities-in-africa http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2016/02/25/a-year-in-the-lives-of-smallholder-farming-families
- 33. Minister of Agriculture visit, 2016
- 35. Increasing yield
- 37. Early years
- 39. Decreased mortality rates by half and increased production five-fold
- 42. Year 4
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- 44. Year 6
- 45. Year 8
- 46. Presenting to President Nyusi
- 47. Summary
- 48. Summary ? Limited ability to meet market standards ¡ð Hands-on education and peer-to-peer support ? Low crop yield and low volume of sales ¡ð Expert guidance and data analytics ? Poor market information and contacts ¡ð Aggregated production to access bigger markets as a co-operative
- 49. So what?
- 50. Consider the humans - Jer Thorp
- 51. ¡°It helps me make money¡±
- 54. Combining offline training + online support - gradudate - Saved US$5000 - Start home business - 800 chickens - Start school - Start training - Seed capital 2 years0 month 2 months - Start home business - 100 chickens - Ongoing support + training online - Start school 0 month 3 months - Graduate - Seed capital Current Future 6 months 20 months