Consultancy to develop a Business Model for a Cassava Out-grower Scheme. Our objective is to develop a business model/ framework, that incorporates an evidence-based approach to the establishment and scale-up of out-grower schemes to deliver effective and mutually beneficial long-term partnership arrangements between smallholder cassava farmers and industrial primary processors. Through this scheme BIF partners will provide inputs and extension services to cassava farmers to improve their productivity, while securing larger and more consistent supply of produce. The model developed should also include estimated operational and human resource plans and costs.
The Business Innovation Facility (BIF) is a 5-year, UKAid (DFID)-funded enterprise and poverty alleviation program being implemented in Malawi, Myanmar and Nigeria. The program employs a ‘Market Systems Approach’ - aiming for large scale, sustainable economic impact by focusing on catalysing change in overall markets rather than targeting individual operators within that market. Thus, BIF aims to facilitate commercially sustainable innovations that have the potential to address the root causes that prevent market growth and limit the poor from economic participation as producers, consumers or employees.
