How the CRS-Led ACORDAR Project in Nicaragua Is Helping Small-Scale Farmers Become Major Players

The CRS-led Alliance to Create Rural Development Opportunities through Agroenterprise Relationships (ACORDAR) assists 7,000 smallholder farmers by helping them produce and sell demand-driven goods. The agency has also helped farmers organize enterprises that maintain multiple off-farm relationships with financial service providers, buyers, local governments and added-value certification bodies.

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Providing Food Assistance While Supporting Local Production

Local and Regional Procurement of food aid involves using cash resources to purchase food commodities within the country or region of programming. Two recent programs in Mali and Burkina Faso not only supplied commodities to schools but also used USDA resources to support smallholder farmers.

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Growing Gardens in Urban and Peri-urban Areas of Lesotho

Lesotho faces chronic food insecurity. Catholic Relief Services implemented an urban homestead gardening project, targeting 5,000 poor households in urban and peri-urban areas.

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Combating cassava diseases to reduce food insecurity and increase incomes in the Great Lakes Region

Cassava Mosaic Disease and Cassave Brown Streak Disease have devastated the food security and income of millions of cassava-dependent farm families. The Great Lakes Cassave Initiative is combing research and development activities to respond to this crisis.

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Helping Ethiopian farmers profit from the sale of white beans

To help farmers maximize the sale of their white bean crop, CRS designed a project called “New Business Models for Sustainable Trading Relationships” to enable smallholders to participate in sustainable trading relationships with multinational businesses.

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