FOCUS ON AGRICULTRE From Scaling to Impact Interplay between social businesses, social entrepreneurs, investors & corporations

Uganda’s agriculture sector comprises 23% of GDP and employs over 80% of the labor force; 83% of the sector workers are women The Feed the Future (FTF) is a $150 million initiative for five years focusing on the maize, coffee, and beans value chains FTF’s model for including smallholder farmers is the “facilitative model” USAID/Uganda’s Feed the Future Initiative

Overall objective? To increase the quantity and quality of coffee, maize, and beans that produced and sold to raise incomes Why the facilitative model? To improve the market system through the private sector, rather than providing unsystainable direct support to smallholders How? Build trust and win-win relationships between value chain actors Increase agronomic and business skills of market actors to better serve farmers Provide innovative solutions to promote good agriculture practices in production and post- harvest handling Harness private sector investment to support farmers

Exporters Traders, Producer Organizations, and Processors Village Agents Farmers Facilitative Approach Expedite behavior change in market systems  Production  Input supply  Supply chain  Entrepreneurship  Financial  Business operations  Market linkages  Storage and post harvest handling  Innovations  ICT to reduce transaction costs Build the capacity of Middle Value Chain Actors in the following services: Through trusted relationships between input suppliers and offtakers, rural families can increase incomes

Agrisectors Most Attractive to Social Investors (and Youth)? Issues: Youth don’t have assets (e.g. land) Youth desire quick returns and mobility Emerging Answer: Agriservices: spraying, tilling, processing, irrigation, input brokers, etc. Opportunity for ICT integration for scaling