ACDI/VOCA-Egypt: Integrating Small Farmers into the Value Chain, Part 3 of 4

ACDI/VOCA has joined with the H.J. Heinz Company and USAID to form the Alliance for Progress in Egyptian Horticulture, a public-private partnership designed to catalyze the potential for process tomato production and value-added horticulture in Egypt.

This program, which will be implemented from March 1, 2008, until September 30, 2012, applies a market-driven value chain approach. It invests in the vast but largely unrealized potential of thousands of Upper Egypt's small farmers to meet modern-day market demands for product quality and quantity.

ACDI/VOCA is strengthening horizontal and vertical linkages in the horticultural chain to achieve higher levels of productivity and quality by

* transferring appropriate technologies and best practices to smallholders
* encouraging information flows and partnerships to increase coordination along the horticulture value chain
* facilitating development of commercial business service providers in production, post-harvest processing and marketing

Learn more about ACDI/VOCA's programming in Egypt at http://www.acdivoca.org

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• Egypt
• ACDI/VOCA
• farming
• farmers
• USAID
• value chain
• Heinz
• Economic development
• tomato
• ACDI
• VOCA