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Climate Resilient Agribusiness for Tomorrow

(CRAFT) Project

This five and a half year project is funded CUMULATIVE NUMBERS BY 2022
by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs,

56 AGRIBUSINESSES
and implemented by SNV Netherlands
Development Organisation in partnership have accessed the matching grant for
with Wageningen University and Research, the implementation of climate change
Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate adaptation practices and/or technologies
Research for Africa (AICCRA), Agriterra, and in their respective value chains.
Rabo Partnerships.
34 SMEs
The goal of the project is to make resilient
foods more accessible for the growing 6
population in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Service
Providers

CRAFT is promoting thriving agribusinesses


20
that are climate-smart, inclusive, scalable women &
and have a clear value proposition to all youth-led
stakeholders, especially smallholder farmers.
Using a private sector-led approach, CRAFT
has collaborated with 56 lead Agri-SMES 16
Cooperatives
and cooperatives to co-develop and co-fund
climate smart business concepts and cases.
CRAFT, through its Climate Innovation and Smallholder farmers have been
Investment Facility (CIIF), provides support
to agribusinesses in becoming resilient
to climate change. These successful
248K trained in climate smart agriculture
practices and technologies

agribusinesses, referred to as ‘Business 53% Female 47% Male


Champions’, implement the business cases
Smallholder farmers have adopted/

195K
with the support of the project.
applied two or more climate resilient
farming practices
The business cases involve training and
other extension services on climate smart Smallholder farmers have
agriculture practices, technologies, and
services, which are provided by the Business
Champion to targeted smallholer farmers.
131K experienced an increase in their
incomes

So far, 195,000 smallholder farmers have People have been employed by


adopted two or more climate resilient farming
practices, and 131,000 smallholder farmers
have experienced an increase in incomes.
1.6K project validated SMEs, farmers
groups and cooperatives
600 Women 1,093 youth
CRAFT is:
 Increasing income for smallholder farmers and SMEs through
their increased adoption of climate-smart practices and
technologies.
 Increasing business performance for agriSMEs and
cooperatives through accelerating investments and
business growth in climate smart value chains and increased
involvement of youth and women in agribusiness development.
 Improving the enabling environment favourable for large scale
roll out of CSA through increased collaboration and exchange
among public-private actors on large scale roll out of CSA.
The project integrates learning and knowledge-sharing practices,
along with gender and youth inclusion, in its work.

Each business case focuses on one of seven entry value chains- common bean, green grams, potatoes,
sesame, sorghum, sunflower, and soybean. The value chains were selected based on their importance to the
food system and climate risks.The project uses climate science to understand the impact of climate change on
the value chains and identify the potential risks that affect them in East Africa.

Break down of Value Chains


Green Digital
Potato Sorghum grams Beans Soybean Sesame Sunflower Providers Total

Kenya 5 5 2 2 0 0 0 1 15

Tanzania 4 3 0 4 0 0 9 1 21

Uganda 1 0 0 0 12 2 4 1 20

The Climate Innovation and Investment Facility  Follow us on


(CIIF) portfolio by December 2022
@crafteastafrica

21.6 Million Euro The CRAFT Project


Total commitment
CRAFT East Africa
14.6 Million Euro
Grantee contribution
 Reach us at:
6.9 Million Euro E-mail: [email protected]
CRAFT Contribution
Website: crafteastafrica.org

PROJECT PARTNERS
Funding Partner Implementation Partners

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