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GLOBALG.A.P. PRESENTATION DURING SUMMIT 2012, MADRID

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Fresh Produce Exporters Association of Kenya

•  Kenya’s premiere association of Grower and exporters, since 1975.

•  100 exporter members. •  Governed by Executive board,

secretariat (CEO and technical team). •  4 platforms: Marketing, capacity

building, advocacy, standards compliance



Making Kenyan Horticulture the Global Choice

Kenya’s Horticulture industry •  Private sector driven, since early

1960s. •  Export oriented: EU, 80%, Middle East

15%, other regions 5% •  Products include fresh legumes (6% in

UK), Flowers (30% in Netherlands), and tropical fruits (under 2%)


•  Sector employs over 1million directly and indirectly, involves over 100,000 smallholder

•  Top Foreign exchange earner ($1 ¼ billion, ½ billion tons fresh produce per year)

•  National Horticulture Policy (2012) coordinates regulation, research, planning of the industry.

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‘Small holder’ farmer

•  2-3 acres •  Low income producer as low as $5000 pa •  Typically multisystem (dairy, cashcrop,

grain, hort, aqua) on small holding •  60-70% export production. (number

decreasing) •  Low access to information (prices) •  Low technology

A typical smallholder growing export quality beans



Compliance Challenges for small producers

•  Capacity for meeting standards: Training and group certification efforts (KenyGAP)

•  Monitoring of systems, including MRL, food safety, traceability : Exporter controlled QMS

•  Hostile Value chain (low returns)



ROLE OF GLOBALGAP IN SMALLHOLDER SECTOR

•  Raising the bar on standard practice among producers, thus ensuring food safety

•  Sustainable production (Life or death for Small holders) = production efficiency

•  Aligning official controls system to International best practice

•  Market access

FPEAK approach: •  Training and implementation:

Simplification, training, and technology •  Assistance to exporters to improve and

monitor small holder groups QMS (KenyaGAP)

•  Lobby regulatory bodies to resource themselves appropriately

•  Regional integration (EAGAP, HCA)




“Kenya-GAP”

3 pillars 1. Environmental

conservation 2. Workers welfare

and Safety 3. Food Safety

4 scopes: 1.  All farm 2.  Crops Base 3.  Flower 4.  Fruit &

vegetable,

  A local Label, international standards   FPEAK Owned scheme (FPEAK Code of

Practice)   Benchmarked to GLOBALGAP

2 levels: 1.  International 2.  Domestic

KENYAGAP MANAGEMENT


KSMC Standards Manager

FPEAK GLOBALGAP NTWG

CBs Audit Unit

Group Internal Auditors, farm inspectors



Regional Integration •  East African Horticulture industry

coalescing as region becomes more integrated. Ke, Ug, Tz, Bu, Rw, Et

•  Regional trade increasing as populations urbanise. ($2 billion potential)

•  Challenges to integration include standardisation of practices in the region.

“EAGAP” •  EAGAP project: Enhancing market access

to the regions small holder farmers through standards implementation – Translation of GLOBALGAP into

Kiswahili version. – Production of a regional curriculum for

GAP training, and simplified training manuals

– Roll out of training and implementation of GAP across the region.




FPEAK-PTC

P.O. Box 40312-00100 Nbi 4th Floor New Rehema Hse,

Westland Tel/fax: 020-4451488/9

Contact:F.M. Wario 0722753851

THANK YOU!

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