MEDA - Mennonite Economic Development Associates
$9,229,389.00 CAD
- Department
- Global Affairs Canada
- Recipient country
- Canada
- Fiscal year
- 2016-2017
- Agreement period
- August 2, 2016 – March 31, 2023
- Reference
- dfatd-maecd:GC-2017-Q2-0012
Published purpose
The Technolinks+ Project aims to improve the livelihoods of women and men living in impoverished, rural areas of northern Nicaragua. The project facilitates the access, promotion and adoption of environmentally-sustainable agricultural technologies with the objective of increasing agricultural productivity, quality, and profitability for approximately 35,000 smallholder farmers and 85 agribusinesses, cooperatives and producers associations, and creating 850 jobs in the agri-food sector. The project has a special focus on supporting women smallholder farmers, women cooperatives and women producer associations.
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This project supports smallholder farmers and agribusinesses in rural northern Nicaragua by promoting sustainable agricultural technologies to increase productivity and create jobs, with a focus on women farmers and cooperatives.
Category: Foreign Aid Development Primarily funds activity outside Canada
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