| Targeted location (aggregate) |
Multi-country - Sub-Saharan African countries with a high percentage of farmers in the active population or high youth unemployment. |
|---|---|
| Verification status | Partially Verified Find out more |
Commitment description
Title
Improving nutrition by improving food security and farmers’ lives.
Commitment Type
Operational CommitmentTaiyo-Yuka and Assentia Holdings commit to improve agricultural production by 1.1 to 1.5 and decrease the use of pesticides and fertilizers by 60% to 80% of several farmers from various African countries in a 8 years span ( from March 2022 to December 2029 ). This will be achieved by developing a new business model that will help farmers by providing low cost solutions to help them increase their yield and decrease their pesticides and fertilizers use.
Specific Action
Creation of a new agribusiness model, a micro-franchise that fits the needs of each country, in cooperation with local parties and improving farmers' lives by increasing their yield, and quality of their crops as well as dispensing the necessary education for organic farming. The micro-franchise will be centered around a biofertilizer that can be produced locally at very low cost
Responsible Party
Taiyo Yuka,CO,LTD. and Assentia Holdings, Inc.
Measurable
Yield, current usage of pesticides and fertilizers and the profits of farmers.
Baseline
Farmers with low yield despite high usage of pesticides and chemical fertilizers and highly damaged environment/poor soil quality.
Timeline
Start of the operations in 5 countries in early 2022. Confirm the results with the farmers by 2023. Expansion of the micro-franchise model in surrounding areas as well as in neighboring countries starting the end of 2023.
Commitment goals
To reduce the usage of fertilizers by at least 50% than the recommanded usage of conventionnal agriculture
- Nutrition Action Classification: Policy > Food supply chain
- Goal SMARTness index: Low
To increase the profit of the farmers by at least 20 to 40% .
- Nutrition Action Classification: Policy > Food supply chain
- Goal SMARTness index: Lower moderate
To reduce the usage of pesticides by at least 50% of pesticides than the recommanded usage of conventionnal agriculture.
- Nutrition Action Classification: Policy > Food supply chain
- Goal SMARTness index: Low
To increase crop yield by at least 20% of the mean yield of each target crop of the target countries.
- Nutrition Action Classification: Policy > Food supply chain
- Goal SMARTness index: Lower moderate
Nutrition Action Classification across all goals
Enabling
- Financial
- Operational
- Leadership and governance
- Research monitoring and data
Policy
- Food environment
- Food supply chain
- Consumer knowledge
- Nutrition care services
Impact
- Undernutrition
- Diet
- Obesity and diet-related NCDs
- Food and nutrition security
N4G themes covered by goals
- Food
- Health
- Resilience
- Data
- Financing
Total funding and costs across all goals
| Funders | Taiyo Yuka |
|---|---|
| Funding mechanism | Private. The funding mechanism will depend on the profits coming from the franchise |
| Cost secured | Launching costs |
| Total costs estimated | Not been estimated / unknown |
