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From the forest to the backyard: creating inclusive honey production systems

Industry
  • Animal Production Related
  • Staple Crops
  • Soy and Oil Seeds
  • Fresh Produce
Country
  • Burkina Faso
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Ethiopia
  • Ghana
  • Kenya
  • Mali
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
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Industry
  • Animal Production Related
  • Staple Crops
  • Soy and Oil Seeds
  • Fresh Produce


Country
  • Burkina Faso
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Ethiopia
  • Ghana
  • Kenya
  • Mali
  • Niger
  • Nigeria

About the partnership

Ethiopia
Animal Production Related

Through working on a radical change in the production of honey, this partnership will encourage women and youth to be engaged in the honey value chain; shifting part of the honey production from the forest to backyard farming will significantly increase the number of women and youth that can be come active in honey production but also in other off-farm activities such as processing, distribution and retail. When this honey is also produced in an effective way, it opens up opportunities for lower cost prices and that will unlock the opportunity to sell more honey and related products to local and urban BoP consumers residing in the major urban areas of the country.

About the business champion
Bench Maji Coffee, Spice and Honey Farmers’ Cooperatives Union is a farmer's union that was established in July 2005 in South West Ethiopia. Of the total 64 member primary cooperatives currently functioning, 34 are engaged in honey production.
Key interventions
Promote backyard honey production system through model farmers & demonstrations
Facilitate market linkages with consumer associations & retailers in (peri)urban markets to reach BoP consumers
Strengthen capacities of the union to provide necessary inputs & training to farmers and to improve processing
Building the capacity of the union to provide professional extension and quality marketing services
Train and coach male and especially female farmers on improved honey production techniques
5,000 smallholder farmers involved
105 micro-small and medium enterprises involved
64 producer organizations involved (cooperatives)
€ 300,000 private sector co-investment
20,000 BoP consumers with better access to nutritious food
Get in touch

Curious about this partnership? Get in touch with the partnership facilitator.

E-mail Demelash Seifu
Partnership Facilitator
Demelash Seifu
dseifu@2scale.org
Project partners
Honey producing primary cooperatives
Farmer cooperative that can provide inputs, value addition, aggregation, transportation & marketing services to honey farmers
Mizan agricultural technical vocational & educational (ATVE) college;
Knowledge institute that can provide technical knowledge & training on beehive management
Zonal and Woreda animal production departments
Government agencies that can provide extension services
Amana agricultural technology
Company that can provide input and supplies for managing beehives
Consumer associations & youth groups
provide opportunities for retailing of honey products to BoP consumers
Agricultural Transformation Agency and Ethiopian Apiculture Board
Government bodies that will contribute towards achieving sectoral transformation in the honey value chain
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December 28, 2020
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