Resilient Efficient Agribusiness Chains (REACH)

improve farmers’ market engagement, strengthen household resilience, and increase availability of agriculture support services, and businesses in the rice and potato value chains.

COUNTRY/REC Uganda

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD January 2016 - December 2020

PROJECT SITE Whole country

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 IFDC
2 Netherlands 17,000,000.00

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 17,000,000.00 0 0
Grant 0 0 0
Loan 0 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 17,000,000.00 - 0
Project Goal

improve farmers’ market engagement, strengthen household resilience, and increase availability of agriculture support services, and businesses in the rice and potato value chains.

Project Objectives

improve market engagement for market-oriented farmers, household resilience and increase availability of agricultural services in the rice value chain.

Beneficiaries

Direct Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number
1 Farmers 40000
2 The farmers who has trained in farming as a business (FaaB), climate-smart agriculture, and resilience 36398
3 Create the work placement(Full-time employment for individuals) 27
4 Graduates 73
Indirect Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number

RICE Approach: Areas of contribution by the project

Resilience Industrialization Competitiveness Empowerment
R1: Area under irrigation
I1: Capacity of industrial mills
C1: Share of local rice
E1: Access to financial services
R2: Quantity of resilient seeds
I2: Mechanization ratio
C2: Quantity of high-yielding seeds
E2: Access to technical services

SIEM

Policy / Institutional Infrastructure Human Resource Capacity Provision of Equipments or services Knowledge / Research
Seed
Fertilizer
Irrigation / water management
On-farm technology transfer
Mechanization
Quality Improvement
Access to market
Access to credit
Overall policy tools

Crosscutting

Women

Youth

Nutrition

Climate Change

Food system