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Commissioned by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency, this report presents an analysis of four smallholder support programmes in South Africa.

World Hope International provides low-cost greenhouses to farmers in Sierra Leone and Mozambique. This report encompasses the monitoring and evaluation of the greenhouses installed in Mozambique’s Gaza and Maputo provinces. With the greenhouses, farmers can grow crops faster and all year round, using less water and fewer seeds. Crops and seedlings grown in the greenhouses are of better quality and have greater chances for survival, because the greenhouses protect the plants from weather variations and pests. Farmers had an overall positive attitude towards the greenhouses and 87 percent of those interviewed plan to continue using them.

The Bhungroo system helps smallholder farmers harvest rainwater throughout the monsoon season so they can use it during the dry season. This report details monitoring and evaluation of the recent installation of 52 Bhungroo systems among the poorest smallholder farmers of Harij in Gujarat’s Patan district.

Este documento presenta estudios de caso de evaluaciones de impacto realizadas en América, Asia y Latinoamérica relacionadas al sector agrícola y bajo la metodología de 5capitales.

This case study explores the business model, development impacts and commercial results of mKRISHI, a technology platform designed for farmers in India that uses ICT to deliver a range of services to smallholder farmers. It reviews how the model enables farmers to improve both yields and margins and how the business model evolved to provide services for not only individual farmers but farmer groups including cooperatives and producer companies comprising smallholders.

This case study explores Stanbic Bank‘s smallholder finance scheme in Nigeria which targets low-income smallholder producers and provides them with access to finance to improve the volume and quality of their production. It discusses the business model as well as development and commercial results.

This case study explores Peru-based venture Villa Andina, which works with local smallholder farmers to produce premium agro-industrial food products for export and sale in large domestic cities. It reviews how the introduction of guaranteed market connections, training and provision of income stability to farmers growing goldenberries has impacted children aged eight and under and pregnant women.

This report reviews the use of Sensemaker software and methodology for assessing the degree of inclusion of smallholder farmers in value chains, specifically with respect to how ownership, voice, risk and reward are shared among the different chain actors.

This study focuses on the value chain for coffee in Ethiopia and Tanzania with the objective of assessing the direct and indirect benefits for smallholder producers participating in these Fair Trade marketing chains. It examines the effects of coffee price changes on the livelihoods of producers in the case study areas; and the coffee value chains and the stakeholders involved at various levels in the chain.

This paper analyses coffee producers in two coffee cooperative societies in the Mt Kenya area. It examines the effects of coffee price changes on the livelihoods of producers, and the coffee value chains and the stakeholders involved at various levels of the chain. It also identifies household responses and coping strategies to changes in the price of coffee; as well as assessing impacts on natural resources and the environment and implications for the future of coffee.