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Niger seed and safflower oilseed value chains in northern Ethiopia with Tsehay

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


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

About the partnership

Ethiopia
Soy and Oil Seeds
Status:
Active

This partnership aspires to transform the oilseeds value chain (targeting the cooking oil sub-sector) in the Northern part of Ethiopia. It intends to integrate smallholder farmers into a well-functioning value chain in Northern Ethiopia as suppliers of raw material while providing affordable and healthy cooking oil to urban and peri urban BoP consumers. In addition, the partnership aspires to create employment opportunities for youth and women in the oilseeds value chain.

About the business champion

Tsehay Multipurpose Farmers’ Cooperative Union (TMFCU) was created in 2000 with 5 cooperatives as its founding members. Currently, it has 142 member cooperatives working in 12 districts with a total number of 120,450 smallholder farmers (27,703 women) producing mainly sesame, chickpea, malt barley, teff, Niger seed, safflower and ginger. The union is based in Gondar Town of the Central Gondar zone of the Amhara regional state.

Key interventions
Improving smallholder farmers' competitiveness
Women and youth empowerment
Improving access to finance and information
Improving access to healthy edible oil for BoP consumers
30,000 smallholder farmers involved
50 micro-small and medium enterprises involved
30 producer organizations involved
€ 1.4 million private sector co-investment
50,000 BoP consumers with better access to nutritious food
Get in touch

Curious about this partnership? Get in touch with the Inclusive Agribusiness Advisor.

E-mail Demelash Seifu
Inclusive Agribusiness Advisor
Demelash Seifu
dseifu@2scale.org
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