The Danida Market Development Partnership (DMDP)

Food and Nutrition Security

A partnership between CARE Danmark, Novonesis, CARE Kenya, and Cereal Growers Association (CGA), to advance sustainable and resilient agriculture in Kenya by introducing the biological plant protection and inoculant product NEMIX®C on sugarcane, potatoes, maize, and flowers.

DMDP’s Goal

Advance sustainable and resilient agriculture by introducing biological plant protection products (NEMIX®C) to support smallholders — especially women — with safe technologies to increase profit and strengthen development opportunities.

Program Achivements

46%

Average HH income increase (FFBS)

48%

Reduction in food insecurity index

10844

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Context and Rationale

Smallholder farmers in Kenya face interconnected challenges: low productivity, post-harvest losses, limited market access, and growing climate risks. Women farmers face additional barriers including limited access to productive resources, markets, and financial services.

CARE Kenya’s FFBS model addresses these barriers through integrated technical training, market systems development, and financial inclusion, while the DMDP introduces sustainable biological technologies at scale.

Theory of Change

When smallholder farmers — especially women — gain access to improved technologies, market systems, and financial services through FFBS, their productivity increases, food losses decrease, and incomes rise.

Strengthened producer cooperatives create economies of scale, enabling access to mechanisation and market linkages that individual farmers could not achieve alone. The result is improved food security, climate resilience, and sustainable household economic growth.

Final Report - Final Evaluation of BORESHA III

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At the near completion of the project, DRC contracted Kenbridge consultants to carry out a final evaluation to document the overall performance of the BORESHA III project against set goals, objectives/outcomes, and outputs as a result of project interventions, as defined in the project theory of change and results framework as well as document any lessons learned, expected as well as unexpected results or changes within and outside the project that impacted project delivery and impact.

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