The overall objective of the project is to implement a public-private-partnership project that will substantially enhance the sorghum supply chain in both Ghana and Sierra Leone. The project will enable sorghum farmers to meet market specifications by adopting technology in areas where private sector stakeholders (agricultural processors as well as input providers) have a clearly vested interest in facilitating farmers’ access to information, skills and market-linked inputs. The beverage industries in both countries (i.e. Heineken, Guinness and their subsidiaries) are committed to purchase locally produced sorghum to be able to substitute a portion of the raw material presently being imported. As an outcome of the project, sorghum farmers will be able to improve productivity and increase their net incomes through greater access to improved inputs, processing technologies, and marketing options provided through commercial agribusinesses and producer associations. Sorghum seed farmers should be able to supply high yielding varieties and private input suppliers and marketing entrepreneurs will improve the quality of their services to their client farmer groups.

In Ghana the project is implemented in close collaboration with TechoServe Ghana.