Farm to Market Alliance (FtMA)

Farm to Market Alliance (FtMA)

The Farm to Market Alliance (FtMA) is an initiative spearheaded by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) through a consortium of end-to-end value chain actors comprising of the following global members: the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Grow Africa, RaboBank, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Yara International, Syngenta and Bayer. The interventions under FtMA are aimed at unlocking crop value chains in order to enhance the participation of smallholder farmers through increasing their marketable surplus thereby improving their livelihoods.

The project is also been implemented in Rwanda and Tanzania and there are plans to scale it out in West Africa.

The project aims at providing a holistic value chain approach to 4 major systemic problems confronting majority of the smallholder farmers namely:

• Access to affordable finance
• Access to affordable finance
• Access to quality farming inputs
• Access to predictable markets
• Access to effective post-harvest handling and storage and other agricultural technologies

The Success of FtMA will be measured by 4 overarching indicators namely:

• Ease of farmer access to input Loans and repayment
• Increase in quality and quantity of farm yields
• Guaranteed market access through forward delivery farmer contracting
• Increased farm profitability among smallholder farmers

Geographic Coverage

Currently, the project is being implemented in the counties:

• Siaya
• Kisumu

• Busia
• Homabay

• Tharaka Nithi
• Meru

• Migori

Initial pilot counties – Migori and Meru

Target value chains: sorghum and soybeans and green grams.