P4P Purchase for Progress

P4P Purchase for Progress

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme (WFP), 2010.

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Purchase for Progress (P4P) is an innovative initiative to assist smallholder farmers by offering them opportunities to access agricultural markets and to become competitive players in the market place. The vision of P4P is to promote the development of agricultural markets so that by 2013 at least 500,000 low-income smallholder farmers – most of whom are women – will produce food surpluses and sell them at a fair price to increase their incomes. A five-year pilot initiative in 21 countries, P4P links WFP’s demand for staple food commodities (cereals, pulses and blended foods) with the technical expertise of a wide range of partners to build the capacity of farmers’ organizations to access credit, increase agricultural production and improve their ability to deliver a high quality product to markets. P4P will transform the way WFP purchases food in developing countries and offers a stable market outlet for smallholder farmers. A secure market encourages smallholders to increase and improve the quality of production resulting in higher incomes. By raising farmers’ incomes, P4P seeks to turn WFP’s local food procurement into a vital tool towards long-term solutions to hunger and poverty.

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