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SHEP Biz has started!

On 17th December 2020, the Project for Smallholder Empowerment and Agribusiness Promotion (SHEP Biz) has officially started. The SHEP Biz is the 4th phase of the project implementing and promoting the Smallholder Horticultural Empowerment & Promotion (SHEP) Approach which was born in Kenya to realize "Market-Oriented Agriculture" and convert farmers' mindset from "grow and sell" to "grow to sell". The Project consists of the 2 components: the one called the SHEP component aiming for developing capacity of the actors who implement and expand the SHEP Approach such as County governments, educational institutions, private companies, etc., the other called the Agribusiness component aiming for identifying the bottleneck of the value chain and small and medium agripreneur and validating the measures to overcome the bottleneck. In collaboration with Kenyan counterparts in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Livestock and Cooperatives, 3 JICA experts who stay in Kenya are working for the SHEP component and Japanese consultants' team is working for the Agribusiness component to enhance capacity of rural agribusiness support.

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Organizational structure of the Project