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| Agora |
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| Fresh produce supply chains, Bangladesh |
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| As it expands, retail outlet chain Agora aims to build the capacity of small and medium fresh produce suppliers and develop robust supply chains. |
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| Shiblee Hatchery & Farms |
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| Cage culture fish farming |
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| Shiblee Hatchery & Farms Ltd aims to engage 100 landless families as fish farmers of cage-cultured tilapia, along the banks of the Adhamanki River. |
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| MicroVentures |
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| Farmer market linkages, Malawi |
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| This project aims to develop market linkages between smallholder farmers and Malawian wholesalers, retailers and food processors. It will initially focus on 850 women. |
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| Universal Industries |
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| High quality cassava flour, Malawi |
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| This project aims develop a business model for the production of high quality cassava flour for use in Universal's own products and for sale as a starch substitute. |
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| Malawi Mangoes |
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| Farm planning, Malawi |
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| In this venture, Malawi Mangoes plans to implement the first large scale fruit processing plant in Malawi to convert magoes and bananas into fruit pulp for export. |
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| AACE Foods |
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| Agroprocessing for local food, Nigeria |
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| AACE processes, packages and distributes locally sourced foods products such as jams, spreads and spices for commercial and retail customers in Nigeria. |
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| Sokoa, Furniture Village |
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| Furniture manufacturing, Nigeria |
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| This venture will set up a local furniture manufacturing cluster with workshop units, factory spaces, as well as a retail units in one place. |
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| Tata Tannery |
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| Inclusive value chain, Zambia |
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| Tata processes rawhide sourced from small-scale cattle farmers for export. This venture aims to develop a sustainable supply strategy for leather production. |
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| Sylva Foods |
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| Indigenous foods, Zambia |
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| Sylva Foods aims to grow demand for traditional foods and beverages such as dried meat and cassava based on an inclusive local sourcing model. |
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| ACI |
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| Sustainable contract farming, Bangladesh |
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| Implementing a sustainable contract farming model that engages poor landless farmers as maize producers. |
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| Guinness Nigeria |
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| Building inclusive value chains, Nigeria |
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| Developing a sustainable value chain through partnerships with millers and local producers of sorghum, cassava and maize. |
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| Sun International |
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| Enhancing smallholder climate resilience, Zambia |
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| Sun International Hotels aims to develop climate-resilience amongst the 400 farmers engaged in its local fruit and vegetable sourcing programme. |
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| Pabna Meat |
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| Sustainable meat supply, Bangladesh |
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| Pabna Meat are introducing measures which will increase their capacity to process cattle and benefit local women who will be engaged as contractual suppliers. |
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| Cropserve Zambia Ltd |
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| Agricultural inputs for small scale farmers, Zambia |
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| Cropserve’s inclusive business project aims to develop an effective and sustainable distribution model to supply the small scale farmer segment with affordable and high quality agro inputs. |
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| Barrick Lumwana Mining |
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| Local Contract Developer Programme, Zambia |
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| The LCD programme aims to increase the amount of goods and services procured from local mining industry suppliers, as well as training and building in-country capacity to enable local SMEs to access wider markets. |
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| SHORT PROJECTS |
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| IRDI |
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| Marketing moringa-based products, Zambia |
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| This project will market products derived from the Moringa crop on a commercially viable basis to help farmers diversify production and sell on international markets. |
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| Sunline |
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| Conduction a business plan review, Zambia |
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| Zambian company aiming to set up a peanut butter processing plant. This project will develop the venture's business plan and map its development impacts. |
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| Guinness Nigeria |
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| Designing an inclusive business strategy, Nigeria |
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This project aims to help Guinness identify key elements of a stakeholder partnership strategy to increase the social impact of core business activities.
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| Taj Pamodzi Hotels |
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| Local smallholder sourcing strategy, Zambia |
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This project aims to explore possible procurement strategies that address the challenges of local sourcing in the Zambian hotel sector.
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| CHC Commodities |
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| Inclusive business strategy, Zambia |
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| This project will help CHC understand the size of the local and international markets for starch and glucose and the potential for growth over time... |
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| Marks & Spencers |
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| Ethical Model Factory, India & Bangladesh |
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| The Business Innovation Facilty conducted an impact assessment study of the EMF pilot to better understand the social and commercial impacts of the project... |
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| ACI Agribusiness |
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| Contract farming workshop, Bangladesh |
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BIF facilitated a workshop bringing together 20 managers from different parts of the division to brainstorm an integrated approach to working with smallholder farmers...
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| ISCEA |
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| Agribusiness supply chain conference, Bangladesh |
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| This conference focused on building and managing strong supply chains in the agribusiness sector. |
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| Pabna Meat |
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| Pre-pilot support, Bangladeshh |
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| This short project supports a larger project will deliver partnership brokering, financial planning and project management assistance. |
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| Milk Mantra |
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| Bulk milk cooler scoping, India |
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Milk Mantra aims to explore the idea of community-managed bulk milk coolers (BMCs). These would enable the farming community to gain access to government and private dairy support schemes.
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| Nyama World |
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| Beef supply chain, Malawi |
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| This project will deliver a feasibility study examining the possibility of using the smallholder supply chain, working with local NGOs to improve livestock management and inputs, providing secure... |
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| Sun Hotels |
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| Local meat sourcing strategy, Zambia |
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| Sun International aim to source meat for their restaurants from local livestock farmers, engaging them in their value chain. |
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| Moringa Miracles |
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| Business planning, Malawi |
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| Developing a business plan to use innovative farming and processing techniques to commercially farm moringa leaf powder and press moringa oil. |
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