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Kenya On-Farm Storage Pilot Project

 

Project Description
The four-year Kenya On-Farm Storage Pilot project aims to improve food security in Kenya through widespread adoption of improved on-farm grain storage systems to reduce smallholder post-harvest crop and income losses. The project is managed by Agribusiness Systems International (ASI) as a part of the larger $110 million AgResults Initiative. The initiative seeks to create high-impact agricultural innovations that benefit smallholder farmers and promote Kenyan food security, health, and nutrition.


This is the one of two projects managed by ASI as a part of the larger

 

Project Approach
Using a performance-based grant “pull�? mechanism, the initiative promotes the uptake of innovative technologies with high-yield development impacts. Project objectives are to:

  • Overcome market failures impeding agricultural innovations by offering results-based grants (“pull�? financing) to private actors introducing and marketing agricultural technologies for smallholder farmers
  • Test the effectiveness and efficiency of "pull" financing in comparison with traditional approaches to the promotion and use of innovative agricultural technologies

Impact and Accomplishments
Helping farmers improve their on-farm grain storage will reduce their post-harvest crop losses and increase the income they can earn. The pilot will be administered through performance-based grants to small-scale maize storage solution vendors (implementers) in the Rift Valley and Eastern regions of Kenya who find innovative solutions to increase storage capacity among smallholders. A total of $7.75 million in grants is available to participating storage providers in the following two categories.

  • In the Rift Valley counties of Uasin Gishu, Baringo, Nandi, Trans Nzoia, Nakuru, Kericho, Bomet, Laikipia, and Trans Mara, a performance-based grant of $750,000 will be offered to participating storage providers who meet pre-specified milestones for storage sales to smallholders, as well as a proportional performance-based grant of $1 million offered to participants for their contributions to overall storage capacity sold over the four-year pilot timeframe.

  • In Kenya’s Eastern counties of Machakos, Makueni, and Kitui, a performance-based grant of $3 million will be allocated proportionally to participating implementers for their respective contributions to total sales of larger grain borer-resistant storage solutions.

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