SDG Agrifood Accelerator Programme by FAO and SEED
Summary
The Programme aims to demonstrate how an enabling support package can help local innovators reach their own targets while potentially contributing significantly to accelerating SDG implementation.AfriLeap produces and supplies hydroponically grown quality hop cones. Auspice creates employment for typically marginalized groups while offering products free from additives and preservatives.FAM Organic delivers fresh produce and a new urban farming concept, the urbanutrigarden, to its eco-farming partners and customers. The produce is marketed through multiple channels, including a website, stores, stalls, and a subscription service.GCCoffee pay a premium price to help coffee farmers living next door to the gorillas around the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda. It is processed through its registered cooperative which sees 2,500 farmers participating in beekeeping in an out-growers scheme model.Yoddoi sells organic single-origin Arabica coffee grown in the Doi Chaang area of northern Thailands Chiang Rai province. It promotes organic farming amongst Akha hill tribe, a small group of coffee growers, and creates a farmers satisfaction price to generate sustainable income for farmers.Learn more about the launch of the Programme here.