Farmer Support Programme
2012-2015
Cattle, Cotton, Palm Oil, Sugarcane & Soy
The need to act
• 79 million more people to feed every year
• Commodities: 60% of agricultural land
• Jeopardizing agriculture practices:
 soil erosion
 groundwater decline
 crop shrinking heatwaves
 droughts
 loss of land to non-agricultural use
FSP: A solution
• Farmer Support Programme
• Help Sustainable resource management
• More yields with less inputs and land use
• Smarter water usage
• Fertilizer and pesticide management
• Target small-holders
• Involvement of the supply chain
• Co-funding and in-kind support throughout
supply chain
FSP: A solution
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Reach
• 400,000 small holders,
• 750,000 ha of agriculture land
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5 commodities
• Cattle,
• Cotton,
• Palm Oil,
• Sugarcane
• Soy
Projects managed by Solidaridad currently FSP operating in:
• Swaziland
Malawi
Tanzania
India
Brazil
Pakistan
Honduras
Belize
India, Malawi, Swaziland, Tanzania, Brazil
Sugarcane grown in over 100 countries
India
• Solidaridad, IFC & 6 mills (EID Parry, NSL Sugars)
• 200,000 farmers (0.5 – 5ha)
• Intevention strategies
• Strengthen capacity of mill extension service
• Capacity building
• Access to credit (drip irrigation)
• Improved farmer associations
• Gap assessment for Bonsucro certification
• Aimed results
• Increase productivity by 10%
• Decrease water input by 20%
• Decrease input of chemicals 20%
• Increase farmer income by 15% (15,000 farmers)
• 75,000ha intercropping with food crops
• National stakeholder group for sugarcane
• 3 mills Bonsucro certified
Malawi
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Solidaridad, Concern Universal (NGO), 10 Farmer Associations
2,500 small scale farmers, 2.5ha farm
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Intervention strategy
• Civic education, business understanding
• Grower organisation capacity
• Technical capacity (training – food crop
production)
• Sugar regulatory framework
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Aimed results
• Bonsucro gap assessment at farm level
• Integration of Standard into farm
• management systems
• Conflict resolutions in place
• Increased grower participation in decision
making processes
• 85% adoption of improved agriculture
• 5% increase on yields
• 10% increase in income (currently $1-3USD/day)
Swaziland
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Solidaridad, Ubombo sugars, Beg Bend Planters group, Kraft foods
3,150 small scale out-growers (3ha)
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Intervention strategy
• Revolving loan fund
• Enhancement of support, soil survey, legal frameworks
• Capacity building of farmers, civic education, business understanding,
training of mill extension and farm leaders
• Capacity building of farmer groups, prepare for Bonsucro certification
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Aimed results
• Improved income for farmers
• Seed cane replanting programme
• Access to better support
• Implementation of a Sustainable Management System to manage
natural resources
• Bonsucro gap assessment
• 3,153 hectares under sustainable land use
Tanzania
Solidaridad, ED& F Man (KSCL),
Kilombero Community Trust,
Ministry of Agriculture
8000 farmers, avg 1.5ha, 35TCH
Intervention:
• Pilot irrigation system
• Capacity building agribusiness, management,
technical, improve village
community
Aimed Results
• Increase farmer income
• Irrigated farm
• 600 additional farmers directly
benefit
• 13,000ha sustainable land
Projeto RenovAcão
• Projecto RenovAcão which aims to
retrain 9,000 redundant cane cutters,
with a focus on female participation and
participation of semi-illiterates
• Partnerships: UNICA, FERAESP,
Fundação Solidaridad, Syngenta, John
Deere, Case IH, IVECO, FMC, 83 mills
associated with UNICA – including the
Bonsucro certified mills and dozens of
Bonsucro member affiliated mills
• Project is replicated by São Paulo govt.
(Via Rápida) and federal govt.
(Planseq).
• Project is replicated in North East Brazil
and Colombia
• 3,000 retrained
Thank you