How CASA and IFFNT are working together
Project title 1: Improve producer technical and management capacity for product aggregation and access to better markets through improved smallholder farmer organization
Project title 2: Advocacy on tax reforms (strengthening the capacity of IFFNT to present the case for a tax waiver on feed imports)
Support from CASA helped build the capacity of 1,200 smallholder farmers, linking them to offtakers. Twenty-five hubs were established, with each hub having a savings and loans fund dubbed Hub Bank. In each region, two value-addition sites were established where kilns were built. Farmers were taught how to process fish by smoking to add value and increase shelf life
CASA work complete: December 2021
Total cost of technical assistance package: Project 1,£107,366 (£77,455 provided by CASA) and project 2, £38,736 (£31,291 provided by CASA)
25 hubs
established
1,200 farmers
mobilized
Mchinji hubs
llinked to offtaker (Pride Investments), who purchased fish at K2,500 per kg