Farm to Market Alliance

FtMA empowers smallholders to become reliable market players through access to four integrated pathways: predictable markets, affordable finance, technologies and quality inputs – such as seeds and fertilizers – and handling and storage solutions.

Support includes contracting, agronomic expertise, training and access to agricultural products and services, and is based on long-term linkages between farmers, buyers, input and equipment suppliers and financial institutions. This approach ensures that farmers can confidently plan, grow, store and sell their crops and maximize their productivity, profitability and resilience over the long term. Importantly, it also builds the confidence of players in agricultural markets in doing business with smallholder farmers.

Since 2015, FtMA has successfully engaged over 150,000 farmers in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia and has developed a network of service delivery centers through which farmers interact with service providers. To date, FtMA has generated US$17 million in crop purchases by commercial buyers and brought together over 60 local private sector players, significantly increasing the transactions between them.