Program Areas
Programs
A framework of program areas for agro-processing and value addition. The areas below are program concepts and focus areas, not confirmed current projects.
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Post-Harvest Loss Reduction Program
Program focus: reducing losses between harvest and market.
Designed to support improved handling, sorting, grading and storage-related practices.
Potential activities: practical training, handling guidance and loss-reduction planning.
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Agro-processing & Product Development Program
Program focus: moving from raw produce to processed, market-fit products.
Designed to support processing workflow development, and product concept development and refinement.
Potential activities: workflow design, product concept testing and commercialization preparation.
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Smallholder Value Addition Program
Program focus: helping smallholder farmers capture more value from what they grow.
Designed to support simple, appropriate processing and handling approaches suited to smallholders.
Potential activities: practical training, farmer group linkages and market linkage support.
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Agro-enterprise Development Program
Program focus: the business capacity needed to run agro-processing enterprises.
Designed to support business model development, enterprise planning and cost considerations.
Potential activities: enterprise planning support and SME advisory.
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Food & Agricultural Product Quality Program
Program focus: quality-oriented practices and product presentation.
Designed to support quality-oriented practices, packaging concepts and traceability concepts. This is practical quality support, not certification.
Potential activities: quality practice guidance, packaging and presentation review.
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Processing Skills & Entrepreneurship Program
Program focus: practical processing skills and entrepreneurship.
Designed to support skills development for people starting or growing processing activity.
Potential activities: training workshops, mentoring and enterprise skills development.
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Market-Oriented Value Chain Development Program
Program focus: linking production, processing and markets.
Designed to support value-chain analysis and market linkage across the pathway.
Potential activities: value-chain mapping and buyer and market linkage facilitation.
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What These Program Areas Can Hold
Each program area is designed so that practical guidance, training materials, reports, field activities and projects can be added over time as they are developed.
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