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Kenya On-Farm Storage Pilot Project

Project Description
The four-year Kenya On-Farm Storage Pilot project aims to improve food security in Kenya through widespread adoption of improved on-farm grain storage systems to reduce smallholder post-harvest crop and income losses. The project is managed by Agribusiness Systems International (ASI) as a part of the larger $110 million AgResults Initiative. The initiative seeks to create high-impact agricultural innovations that benefit smallholder farmers and promote Kenyan food security, health, and nutrition.

This is the one of two projects managed by ASI as a part of the larger

Project Approach
Using a performance-based grant “pull�? mechanism, the initiative promotes the uptake of innovative technologies with high-yield development impacts. Project objectives are to:

Overcome market failures impeding agricultural innovations by offering results-based grants (“pull�? financing) to private actors introducing and marketing agricultural technologies for smallholder farmers
Test the effectiveness and efficiency of "pull" financing in comparison with traditional approaches to the promotion and use of innovative agricultural technologies

Impact and Accomplishments
Helping farmers improve their on-farm grain storage will reduce their post-harvest crop losses and increase the income they can earn. The pilot will be administered through performance-based grants to small-scale maize storage solution vendors (implementers) in the Rift Valley and Eastern regions of Kenya who find innovative solutions to increase storage capacity among smallholders. A total of $7.75 million in grants is available to participating storage providers in the following two categories.

In the Rift Valley counties of Uasin Gishu, Baringo, Nandi, Trans Nzoia, Nakuru, Kericho, Bomet, Laikipia, and Trans Mara, a performance-based grant of $750,000 will be offered to participating storage providers who meet pre-specified milestones for storage sales to smallholders, as well as a proportional performance-based grant of $1 million offered to participants for their contributions to overall storage capacity sold over the four-year pilot timeframe.
In Kenya’s Eastern counties of Machakos, Makueni, and Kitui, a performance-based grant of $3 million will be allocated proportionally to participating implementers for their respective contributions to total sales of larger grain borer-resistant storage solutions.

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