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Supporting Smallholder

Farmers and Pastoralists

to Access Improved

Inputs - Mozambique

The African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership (AFAP) accessible and affordable. Our main focus is on the
is a collaboration between the New Partnership for Africa’s following objectives:
Development (NEPAD), the Alliance for Green Revolution
in Africa (AGRA), the International Fertilizer Development Objective #1: To support the public and private sector
Center (IFDC), the African Development Bank (AfDB) in establishing a business-enabling environment for the
and the Agricultural Market Development Trust − Africa development of input distribution networks
(AGMARK). These partners are working together to
promote the development of sustainable input markets Objective #2: To stimulate increased demand, access and
in Africa and have designed AFAP specifically to increase usage of productivity-enhancing inputs and production
private-sector participation and investment in ongoing technologies by smallholder farmers
and new initiatives.
Objective #3: To develop and strengthen input
AFAP has been supporting smallholder farmers and distributions networks and output collection markets
pastoralists to access improved inputs (seeds, fertilizer,
crop-protection products and animal-health products) Objective #4: To stimulate increased supply, availability
and technologies for increased agricultural and livestock and affordability of improved inputs
production as well as output markets for surplus
production. The objective is to improve food security The success stories on the Food security though climate
and the incomes of smallholder farmers by facilitating Adaptation and Resilience in Central Mozambique (FAR
agricultural development in Mozambique. This is being Sofala Project) give only partial insight to the true extent of
achieved through the adoption of improved production AFAP’s successful interventions in a number of projects in
technologies and effective output marketing in response Mozambique, from which more than 300 000 smallholder
to identified market opportunities. AFAP’s interventions farmers are benefitting.
through a market-systems approach aim to make inputs

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