InovAgro

InovAgro is rated 3 out of 5 in the category farming. Read and write reviews about InovAgro. Small farms have traditionally dominated agricultural production in northern Mozambique, providing primarily subsistence output and offering limited commercial opportunities. The Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation is working with Mozambique’s government to increase farmers’ incomes in this region through the Innovation for Agribusiness (InovAgro) project. Launched in 2011, InovAgro promotes the development of inclusive and sustainable market systems, also known as Making Markets Work for the Poor. InovAgro’s interventions focus on three provinces, Nampula, Zambézia, Cabo Delgado and 12 districts in northern Mozambique. Focused on five value chains— groundnuts, pigeon peas, maize, sesame and soybeans, InovAgro aims to deliver sustainable reach 30,000 male and female smallholder farmers by promoting access and use of programme-supported services, inputs and technologies. It does this through partnership agreements with private sector players, government and CSOs. Taking a market systems development (MSD) approach, InovAgro concentrates on the following intervention areas: Access to finance, Input markets, Output marketing, Enabling environment, Land tenure security, Cross-cutting interventions, Gender Integration and Climate Resilience.