VanillaMoon.org

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"Vanilla Moon" is the brand name for vanilla produced and processed under a joint venture with farmer associations and international partners in the western Ugandan district of Kasese.

The Kasese Smallholder Income and Investment Program (KSIIP) is a unique collaborative effort between a Catholic charitable foundation based in the Netherlands (CORDAID), a Dutch horticultural products trading firm (Highlow Supermarkt B.V.), two specialist horticultural consulting firms (US-based Fintrac Inc. and its Ugandan affiliate Agribusiness Management Associates Ltd.), and seven Kasese-based smallholder grower associations. With start-up grant and loan funding provided by CORAID, more than 80 percent of program costs are funded through income generating activities of the program itself in a unique business model being applied to a development program. Through the introduction and expansion of high-value crop production in Kasese District, the program seeks to more than quadruple the incomes of more than 2,000 farm families.

KSIIP is providing direct farm-level production, postharvest, and marketing assistance to more than 2,000 farmers through partnerships with seven smallholder associations. It is likely that additional smallholder association partners will be added over the five years that KSIIP is scheduled to operate. Initial crops being supported are vanilla, passion fruit, and hot peppers (all for export) as well as production of local market vegetables. The variety of crops is expected to expand as new markets are identified. Over the first five years, KSIIP is expected to directly generate an additional US$6.7 million in additional high-value exports for Uganda.