sustaining partnership to enhance rural enterprises and agribusiness development by : jean claude...
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Sustaining Partnership to enhance Rural Enterprises and Agribusiness Development By : Jean Claude Kayisinga
THE SPREAD PROJECT OVERVIEW
A Cooperative Agreement between The Norman Borlaug Institute at Texas A&M University and USAID
Funding from USAID of US $6 M over 5 years– $5 M for Value Chain Program– $1 M for Health: HIV/AIDS/MCH/FP Programs
Five year life time project from Oct 2006-Sept 2011 and it’s a continuation of PEARL I and II, USAID funded Projects from 2000 to 2006
Operate under the Ministry of Education through the National University of Rwanda-Faculty of Agriculture
Early focused on specialty coffee and cassava flour, later expands to high value commodities under Public Privates Partnership: – Bird’s Eye Chili Pepper – Pyrethrum
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Mission of SPREAD
To target rural Rwandan agricultural enterprises involved in high value commodity chains and provide them with appropriate technical assistance and access to market and health related services that results in increased incomes and improved livelihoods
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SPREAD partnership builds upon the PEARL partnership
PEARL placed greater emphasis in institutional and grass roots development Advanced degree training to MS level in the
US 20 Rwandan professionals from NUR, KIST
and ISAR Reformed NUR Agriculture School curriculum
Created Agribusiness department and Food Science courses
Establishment of NUR Agriculture Outreach Center Increase incomes in rural communities
through creation of innovative agribusiness activities
SPREAD places emphasis on utilizing resources built under PEARL to grow and sustain profitable value chains Support to businesses along the value chain Quality research and development Extension network including radio
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How it works? Working in Partnership with:
Government Institutions and Districts : NUR, OCIR-Café, ISAR, RHODA, RCA , RDB and Districts Authorities etc..
Other International NGO’s or Projects involved in similar programs : Technoserve, Alliance of Coffee Excellence, ADF, Project Rwanda etc…
More than 30 US and European coffee and Ethnic foods Companies
Focusing on quality throughout the entire agricultural value-chain
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Coffee Program: What we found?
Rwanda is great place for Arabica Coffee Ideal altitudes: 1,500 to
2,600m Volcanic soils: recent and
weathered Heirloom varieties: 80%
old bourbons Perfect rainfall and
temperatures: 2 m and 25ºC
Huge skilled labor force: 80% of the population working in agriculture
Liberalized coffee sector
Why it was unknown in specialty Coffee Market? Government controlled
sector and export monopoly before 1994
Targeted “C” market 400,000 producers Each
one producing and processing it differently
All selling to one buyer No incentive for high
quality Poor price led to poorer
quality
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PEARL and SPREAD Intervention: At Farmer Level
Forming Cooperatives Coffee Washing Station were built
Direct trade and building relationship with coffee buyers ( fair trade certification)
Establishment of Coffee laboratories
“Brew your Own” Coffee program
Quality innovation in transport : Designing a Coffee Cargo bike that can carry 200 kg in partnership with Project Rwanda
Support Cooperative to create their own Exporting and Roasting Company : RWASHOSCCO and Rwanda Roasters
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At Institutional Level
The National University of Rwanda Establishment of the NUR Outreach Center Radio Salus to develop and broadcast coffee quality and health
messages to over 200,000 coffee farming families Agribusiness and food scientists Creation of a suitable environment for coffee research
The National Coffee Development Authority ( OCIR-Café) Marketing Trade show preparation GIS-based decision support system in partnership with the NUR-CGIS Quality control systems and extension Organization in Rwanda and in Africa the first ever prestigious Cup of
Excellence Coffee Competition Conducting an appellation program for Rwandan coffee in partnership
with NUR-CGIS and Texas A&M University District level government
Importance of Good Agricultural Practices to meet market specifications
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Impact of the Projects’ intervention at Cooperative Level: CASE OF MARABA
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Impact of the Project’s intervention at National Level Around 400,000 coffee farm
families are making over SIX times today what they earned in prior to these USAID projects
Foreign exchange earnings on specialty coffee have risen from $0 in 2001 to over $12,000,000 now and growing at 10% annually
Total earnings increased in coffee from $20M in 2002 to $40M in 2009
Today, over 30 U.S. and European coffee companies like Starbucks, Costco are buying over 5,000 tons annually, directly from the growers.
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Private and Public Partnership: Pyrethrum and Chili programs
PPP between USAID SPREAD Project, SC Johnson Family Co. and SOPYRWA: To improve agriculture
practices and pyrethrum yield Agronomics, flower drying
and genetics stock improvement
New coops formed for a better information flow
To improve farming family income from pyrethrum New coops formed to
empower farmer Farmer confidence boosted
by ensuring full value of dry flowers is paid
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Products Developed12
THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION
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