Strategy for agricultural marketing and agro-processing ... - Foodnet

6. Rural access to electric
power expanded
significantly
ACTIVITIES 1.1 Tender drawn up and
let for contracting market
info. expertise
1.2 Training provided to
NAADS Secretariat to
develop
capacity/capability to
monitor operations and
evaluate effectiveness of
the mktg. info. system
2.1 Contract drawn up
with training body, to
work with & develop
capacity of farmers’
associations in group
formation/collective
marketing activities, etc.
2.2 Undertake study tour,
reviewing CLUSA’s
capacity-building
activities with farmers’
organisations.
with MTTI.
Energy for Rural
Transformation
project under
implementation
from mid-2002.
NAADS Secretariat
lets ?month
pilot
contract during
2002, relating to
provision of
market info.
services, covering
all of country in
‘n’ crops and ‘m’
livestock/livestock
products.
Including raw
data collection,
analysis & regular
dissemination;
training of farmer
groups, traders
and other
stakeholders in
analysis/use of
mkt. info.
In-service training
in mkt. info.
systems provided
to 2(?) NAADS
Secretariat staff
by consultants/
current TA.
Capacity development
activities
underway in ‘n’
farmers’
organisations
during 2003; ‘m’
in 2004.
“n” day study tour
for ‘m’ GoU
officials (MAAIF,
PMA Secretariat/
sub-Committee
staff) in
Mozambique,
completed by end-
2002.
Means:
Costs:
Notes:¹ other, related, areas requiring action are being addressed under the MTCS umbrella – negotiations to bring
about a reduction in road, rail and air freight rates, for example.
2
a number of the major programmes which make up the strategy are already under implementation - see “Results” 3
to 6 (in Italics).
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