The ADAPT Project in Zambia Successes and Lessons in Building a Scalable Network of Rural Agro-Dealers to Serve Smallholder

  • Date Posted: May 24, 2011
  • Authors: Christian Pennotti, Todd Fawley-King
  • Organizations/Projects: CARE USA
  • Document Types: Case Study or Vignette
  • Donor Type: Non-Governmental Organization

This CARE Market Engagement Innovations and Impacts Case Study features the experiences of CARE Zambia under a three-year, $3,000,000 Agro-Dealer Project (ADAPT), funded by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). ADAPT was designed to provide 91,000 households in rural Zambia with access to an increased range of affordable, high-quality agricultural inputs by developing a network of rural agro-dealers.