WFP Experiences in relying on FOs

under conflict and post-conflict

contexts.

1. WFP engaged with farmers across different FO levels, from small, grassroots

organizations and women’s only groups to large-scale regional federations and

unions.

2. The majority of FOs which WFP engaged with are community-based organization;

Types of farmers’ organizations

WFP has an enormous range of projects and platforms that support farmers

and their organization.

1. In the short term, we enable farmers to meet their immediate food needs while

focusing on future resilience by empowering them to create productive assets,

such as roads, irrigation systems and farm-land.

2. WFP strengthen the capacity of farmers aggregation systems, such as farmers

organizations to encourage collective marketing, provision of value addition,

financial and other services to farmers.

3. By leveraging WFP’s large purchasing power for staple foods to provide farmer

with an entry point into formal markets, farmers are incentivized to produce in

higher quantity and better quality.

Overview of WFP support to Farmers and their organization

1. Since 2008 over 1,000 FOs, with a total membership of 1.7 million farmers;

2. Since 2008, WFP has purchased more than 600,000 MT of food from FO, valued

at more than US$245 million.

3. More than 500 partners (Government, UN, NGOs and private sector) to provide

support across the entire value chain (production, processing and marketing).

Output and achievements

Why WFP want to restore agriculture value chain in post crises

The demand for food assistance arises from flawed, disrupted, and broken value chain systems

Flaws

Disruptions and

Breakages

Value Chain

Production Transformation Consumption

FOOD

ASSISTANCE

Why WFP want to restore agriculture value chain in post crises

1. WFP is increasingly focusing on enhancing the resilience and sustainability of

agriculture value chain (food systems) and improving smallholder livelihoods in

order to contribute to SDG 2 (Zero Hunger);

2. WFP is a major buyer of staple food, both raw and processed food;

The role of FOs in the restoration of Agri-value chains in post crises contexts

1. Mobilization of famer’s into groups (primarily community based groups);

2. Creating or rehabilitating agriculture assets through the FOs;

3. Strengthening farmers livelihoods and resilience to shocks to improve

communities’ agricultural potential and increasing available surplus;

4. Purchasing the surplus products;

5. Enabling them access financial services, storage facilities, inputs and agricultural

training;

WFP Post conflict/Recovery experience

1. Bottom up development of FOs;

2. Membership in FOs should not be limited to land owners and must be open to

tenant farmers also;

3. Farmers and FOs tend to require substantial capacity development in a wide

variety of areas, including; marketing, access to finance, production and

productivity, post-harvest handling and issues related gender, conflict resolution,

etc.;

4. Inputs supply is crucial to secure and maintain the benefits and opportunities to

FOs;

5. Farmers organization can supply high-quality food provided there is an

investment in their capacity and they have an assured market.

Lessons Learned

1. Fear of losing independence among the farmers to join the FOs;

2. Lack of infrastructure;

3. Legal and regulatory frameworks;

4. Linkages between agriculture development and the overall community

development;

Challenges

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