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  • Jan 2012 - Jan 2017
  • Rwanda

Building capacity along Rwanda's dairy value chain

USAID Rwanda Dairy Competitiveness Program II

Leveraging the momentum of the USAID Rwanda Dairy Sector Competitiveness Project I (RDCP I), in 2012 we started implementing the USAID RDCP II to increase competitiveness of Rwandan dairy products in regional markets. Throughout the project, RDCP II worked in 17 of Rwanda's districts with a focus on the following areas: farm productivity, milk and dairy product quality, policy and enabling environment, market access, technologies and business services, demand for dairy products, and investment promotion and market development. Important cross-cutting themes were integrated into the project, including women's economic empowerment, nutrition and milk consumption, and access to finance.

HERE ARE SOME OF THE AMAZING RESULTS:
12,000
new jobs created
$54.3 million
increase in dairy farmer income
63,100
rural households benefitting
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WHAT IS CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE

A SYSTEMS-LEVEL APPROACH THAT AIMS TO:
  1. Increase agricultural productivity and profitability
  2. Build adaptivity and resilience to climate change, and
  3. Reduce or remove greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture
  • A project worker for RAMA BC posing in the corn fields after doing an insect risk assessment.
  • A project worker for RAMA BC posing in the corn fields after doing an insect risk assessment.

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