Increase the income of smallholder farmers through training extention agents and smallholder farmers on market-oriented farming and/or agribusiness so that the farmers purchasing powers of nutritious foods are enhanced by increased incomes.

Extension agents and smallholder farmers in Ethiopia, Mali, Nigeria and Uganda will receive technical trainings on market-oriented farming and/or agribusiness. SAA will conduct the trainings by the cascade extension model with ToT-educated extension agents, which will include the farmer-led market survey for crop selection, value addition to agricultural products, and cost-benefit analysis. As a result of the trainings, smallholder farmers can increase their purchasing powers of nutritious foods by increased revenue for sale of cash crops and grains, which can be accelerated by collective marketing through the farmers multipurpose cooperatives strengthen by SAA.

We will also encourage youths/women/PwDs groups to become "farmer-entrepreneurs" (contract farming/agro-processing/input sales/agro-brokerage, etc.) so that they can generate incomes and others in the same community will benefit from the service necessary for sustainable production of nutritious crops. In addition, some of the entrepreneurs are also expected to start processing nutritious foods (beans, vegetables, fishmeal, etc.) into nutritional supplements for infants and young children, thereby enabling residents of the community to feed nutrient-rich complementary food to their children.