Farming Support Initiative (FSI)



Contract partner: GFA - Georgian Farmers Association Country: Georgien Funding amount: € 888.630,00 Project start: 01.11.2018 End: 31.08.2022

Short Description:

Overall goal


The project’s intended impact will be: Poverty and exclusion in rural areas of Georgia are reduced thanks to higher incomes and improved market positions of small-scale businesses in the agricultural sector.

The project’s expected outcome will be: Small-scale farmers in selected regions strengthen their position in the system and increase their income thanks to an improved productivity, diversified products and better access to markets.


Expected results


The expected outputs from the project are:

Output 1: The capacities of business-oriented farmers, rural entrepreneurs, and agricultural cooperatives are strengthened through demand-driven training, public private dialogues, and vocational education.

Output 2: Sustainable business-oriented farming is established in different fields of the agriculture sector (including rural/agro tourism) in target regions.

Output 3: Well-managed linkages to potential high-end buyers are established through the introduction of contract farming in target regions.

Output 4: An environmentally sustainable pasture management model is introduced and promoted for further replication throughout Georgia.


Target group / Beneficiaries


The project’s direct beneficiaries are at least 580 farmers (of which 35%, or more than 200 farmers, will be women). The project will be implemented in the following four regions of Georgia: Kakheti, Kvemo Kartli, Samtskhe-Javakheti, Mtsketa-Mtianeti.


Activities


The types of activities that will be undertaken to reach the project’s expected outputs are:

• Capacity development – demand-driven training for agricultural cooperatives and business oriented farmers.

• Sustainable farming - specialized training and award of assets to farmers to provide needed investment for sustainable development.

• Linkages to high-end buyers - contracts with distribution companies like GFDC , demonstration plots, and cross-visits to successful projects.

• Pasture management - site identification, special expertise, demonstration plots, and an awareness campaign.

 


Context


Modern Georgian agriculture lacks qualified human resources, capital, access to plant protection services, storage facilities, and a developed land market. In addition, data on production is also sorely lacking. State funding as well as private financing is not sufficient for the development of needed infrastructure. There is considerable potential for growth in agricultural production, but most local products cannot resist competition from imported ones. The majority of locally consumed food and agriculture products are imported. Furthermore, the low productivity of the agriculture sector disrupts foreign direct investment inflows, which are crucial for development of the sector and growth of competitiveness.

project number 8336-00/2018
source of funding OEZA
sector Landwirtschaft
tied
modality Project-type interventions
marker Environment: 1, Climate change adaptation: 1, Biodiversity: 1, Desertification: 1, Gender: 1, Poverty: 1
  • Policy marker: are used to identify, assess and facilitate the monitoring of activities in support of policy objectives concerning gender equality, aid to environment, participatory development/good governance, trade development and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health. Activities targeting the objectives of the Rio Conventions include the identification of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, and desertification.
    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
  • Type of Aid – Aid modalities: classifies transfers from the donor to the first recipient of funds such as budget support, core contributions and pooled programmes and funds to CSOs and multilateral organisations, project-type interventions, experts and other technical assistance, scholarships and student costs in donor countries, debt relief, administrative costs and other in-donor expenditures.
  • Purpose/ sector code: classifies the specific area of the recipient’s economic or social structure, funded by a bilateral contribution.
  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.
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