As part of its commitment to eradicate the causes of hunger, WFP works with smallholder farmers through its Purchase for Progress (P4P) initiative to improve access to markets and boost knowledge about farming and post-harvest techniques.
In Rwanda, the government has replicated this P4P model to create Common P4P (CP4P) to support public procurement as part of its policy to transform the agricultural sector.
Farmers and government officials from Ghana and Kenya travelled to “the land of 1,000 hills” in August to see how this innovative collaboration is working out.
“People say Rwanda is a country of 1,000 hills (but) to me Rwanda is a land of 1,000 things to learn about economic development,” said Richard Barwecho Rono, who represented the Lolgorian farmers’ organization from Kenya.
