Accelerated Innovation Delivery Initiative (AID-I)
AID-I is a program designed to accelerate the deployment of innovations to help smallholder farmers especially women and youth to improve agricultural production while building resilience to environmental and other external shocks. AID-I is accelerating innovation delivery by enabling research partners to support last mile market and extension actors to scale innovations needed to improve production and resilience of smallholder farmers. It leverages existing interventions to increase rapid access, availability and use of innovations. The interventions focus on nine value chains that have the greatest potential for improving smallholder livelihoods bundled with associated innovations and practices to improve their productivity and profitability. Strengthening these value chains will enable farmers to sustainably increase crop and livestock productivity and thus improve food and nutrition security and resilience to climate change.
The initiative is guided by two main objectives: (1) To equitably increase the availability and accessibility of proven agricultural and nutritional innovations to smallholder farmers; and (2) To enhance the adoption of proven agricultural and nutritional innovations for sustainable and equitable increase in productivity, marketing, and consumption of nutritious food among smallholder farmers.
Project components:
- Strengthening demand-driven seed systems to increase availability and accessibility of seeds of high-yielding and resilient varieties to farmers;
- Increasing productivity of village chickens and goats;
- Integrating soil and crop management, advisory services and tools, particularly practices that reduce production risk and minimize the severity of climate change;
- Increasing access and consumption of nutrient dense food;
Increasing market access and expanding smallholder access to credit.
Project outcomes
- Improved functionality of the seed systems that respond to the needs of smallholder farmers;
- Increased productivity and market access of smallholder farmers;
- Increased availability and access to nutrient-dense foods.
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Donors: USAID
Partners:
IIAM, CIP, ICRISAT, CIAT, NANA, AGRA, Kyeema, Aflalivre, Olipa-Odes, Plant Village, UATAF, Winnua, Nossara, Agromiço, Dream-Agrobusiness.
Location: Mozambique