CIFSRF final technical report : Farm Shop - Scaling access to agricultural inputs in Kenya (CIFSRF Phase 2)
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2018-06
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Social enterprises face many challenges in achieving scale. A “social franchise” such as Farm Shop combines the principles of business franchising (a replicable business system that reduces risk for entrepreneurs), with a social objective such as improving lives of smallholder farmers, thereby addressing problems not adequately served by markets or governments. Farm Shop trained 26,578 farmers (52% women) on various aspects of agronomy and animal husbandry through a network of 59 village demonstration sites. The project synthesis provides research results, milestones and outputs. Successful social franchising creates replicable models that are transferable to new geographic areas.
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This work was carried out with the aid of a grant from Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), and with financial support from the Government of Canada, provided through Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
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Final Technical Report
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KENYA, SOUTH OF SAHARA, SMALL ENTERPRISES, SMALLHOLDERS, FOOD SECURITY, AGRICULTURAL INNOVATION, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY, AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION, GENDER ROLES, RURAL ECONOMY, SCALING UP