Pedaling Power: CARE and Zambikes Go the Last Kilometer for Input Supply in Rural Zambia
This brief highlights CARE's work in developing a sustainable network of 500 rural agro dealers, and providing 91,000 smallholder farmers with access to a range of high-quality, affordable agricultural inputs and improved technologies. It reviews the project model which uses locally-manufactured bicycles and carts to enable rural agro dealers to better engage with rural small-holder communities; and it outlines the results and lessons learned.