Round 2: 2019 Agribusiness Business plan call by the Eastern African Farmers’ Federation (EAFF)

The Eastern African Farmers’ Federation (EAFF) is a regional farmers' organization whose membership consists of 24 national farmer organizations organized either as cooperatives or commodity associations across 10 countries in Eastern Africa - Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. The main objective of EAFF is to voice the concerns and interests of farmers across the region to enhance their social-economic status and regional cohesiveness. EAFF is currently implementing the project scaling up rural youth access to inclusive financial services for entrepreneurship and employment which runs from Nov 2017 – Nov 2020 with support from IFAD. It is in this context that EAFF is calling upon youth groups or individual youths in Agriculture or agribusiness related enterprises in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda to apply for support to help them access funding for innovative ideas in any of the following areas of Agribusiness: 1. Production, marketing and processing of agricultural products 2. Appropriate technology and innovations ready for scale up/commercialization e.g. ICT, irrigation, storage etc. 3. Agricultural finance and agricultural services e.g. sprayer groups, planting groups, weeding groups etc. 4. Aggregation, supply chain management and distribution Agriculture inputs (seeds, fertilizer, pesticide etc.) 5. Business Development Service providers Cottage industry 6. Any other relevant area More information can be obtained from here: https://agriprofocus.com/post/5c48501026b72a2d630847af