Sorghum Value Chain Business Case Development
Sorghum 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 a...
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Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa
2022
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| description | Sorghum 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. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1270002025-11-11T16:26:17Z Sorghum Value Chain Business Case Development Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa Financial Access Consulting Services agriculture climate-smart agriculture sorghum development Sorghum 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. 2022-09 2023-01-12T21:09:59Z 2023-01-12T21:09:59Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127000 en Open Access application/pdf Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa AICCRA, FACS. 2022. Sorghum Value Chain Business Case Development. AICCRA Report. Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA). |
| spellingShingle | agriculture climate-smart agriculture sorghum development Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa Financial Access Consulting Services Sorghum Value Chain Business Case Development |
| title | Sorghum Value Chain Business Case Development |
| title_full | Sorghum Value Chain Business Case Development |
| title_fullStr | Sorghum Value Chain Business Case Development |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sorghum Value Chain Business Case Development |
| title_short | Sorghum Value Chain Business Case Development |
| title_sort | sorghum value chain business case development |
| topic | agriculture climate-smart agriculture sorghum development |
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