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Our aims and target groups in (agricultural) livelihoods
Header livelihoods
Highlights in Livelihoods
IICD’s work in the (agricultural) livelihoods and environment
sectors mainly supports small-scale farmers and rural entrepreneurs.
Our efforts to help them focus in particular on:
Production, certification and traceability. We help develop
enhanced ICT tools to gather information for (organic) production and
certification processes and the traceability of produce.
Market and price information. IICD improves access to
information on prices, markets and alternative production methods. This
includes organic production and responses environmental changes.
ICT skills and capacity. We deliver basic training in
essential ICT skills for finance, administration and marketing to help
entrepreneurs better manage their business. Such training may also
generate new business opportunities for young people, for example, in
hardware maintenance and repair services.
Who did we reach in sector livelihoods?
What did we achieve?
In 2010, IICD:
worked in Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Ecuador, Ghana, Mali,
Uganda and Zambia. We had project activities in Jamaica and
Tanzania too, but they continue independently from IICD. This means
that they still deploy activities and participate actively in networks
but are financially sustainable without support from IICD.
supported 54 projects and 10 policy formulation processes
and leveraging programmes
reached more than 341,000 end-users and 3.7 million
indirect beneficiaries. This was a substantial increase over 2009,
when our activities reached 230,000 end-users and 3.3 million
beneficiaries.
We reached small-scale farmers and entrepreneurs through a
wide variety of organisations ranging from farmers’ federations to
national agricultural service providers. In 2010, we reached more women
than in previous years; nearly half of the people benefiting from
our programmes were women. This makes our programmes more effective
at fighting poverty, since women in rural areas are generally more
disadvantaged than men when it comes to income and education.
For an overview of our projects in the livelihoods sector, please
see the project
overview list.
Our partners in (agricultural) livelihoods
Our work in the livelihoods sector is supported by various partners
from the public, private and non-profit sectors. In 2010, these
included among others:
Case Story Ghana
Farmers in Ghana are able to get better prices for their crops then they used to by using text messages on their phone.
Projects in sector livelihoods
These include leveraging programmes, policy formulation processes and projects on the ground. All project activities in Jamaica, Mali and Tanzania continue independently from IICD.
