TechnoServe Grant



Organization - TechnoServe
Grant Amount - $550,500
Foundation - Rockefeller Foundation
Grant Purpose - toward the costs of a project in Uganda designed to increase the incomes of small-scale banana producers by adding value to their crops through product packaging, processing and transport innovations and by linking them to urban buyers, thereby reducing market inefficiencies


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TechnoServe - $603,358 from the Rockefeller Foundation - toward the costs of a project in Uganda designed to increase the incomes of small-scale banana producers by adding value to their crops through product packaging, processing and transport innovations and by linking them to urban buyers, thereby...

International Plant Genetic Resources Institute - $50,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation - for use by its International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain toward the costs of preparing for and assuring African participation in an international workshop on the processing and development of banana-based enterprises, held in...

Flemisch Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology - $91,380 from the Rockefeller Foundation - toward the costs of a project, in collaboration with Uganda's National Agricultural Research Organization, to increase banana productivity through genetic transformation to improve the architecture and development time of the East African...

University of Cape Town - $700,500 from the Rockefeller Foundation - for use by its African Centre for Cities in support of three projects to help strengthen urban planning capacity in sub-Saharan Africa: a project to improve urban planning training programs, a workshop on innovations in urban development, and a...

Makerere University - $95,818 from the Rockefeller Foundation - toward the cost of planning a project to increase the food security and incomes of poor farmers in Uganda through development and marketing of nutrient-enhanced banana-based foods for local, regional and international markets

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