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Browsing: food exports
- EAGC funding seeks to tackle trade challenges directly by removing trade impediments and building food export capacity in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
- This is across export value chains such as Maize, Beans, Millet, Sorghum, and Rice.
- Further, a core part of this is to increase the ability of grain producers to export both regionally and to the rest of the world.
Food export competitiveness in East Africa
Through USAID’s Economic Recovery and Reform Activity (ERRA) program, the United States government has awarded a three-year grant worth $2 million to the Eastern Africa Grain Council (EAGC).
The funding is geared towards strengthening the competitiveness of export-oriented staple food value chains in East Africa.
ERRA program is delivered by TradeMark Africa (TMA), with funding from Feed the Future. Via its five-year $75 million program, USAID and TMA are driving transformative trade and investment reforms in the East and Horn of Africa.
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