This Project component supports improvements in the investment and trade environment that will both deepen and sustain market linkages and improve financing for PAs and POs. By promoting dialogue between the government and private sector, AGCOM will support interaction on subjects leading to the formation of PAs (contracts and enforcement) and improved access to markets (trade facilitation, regulatory inefficiencies, improved agribusiness product standards, and certifications for PAs). Under component 2 the Project will:
- Increase access to agricultural financing and strengthen the credibility of the warehouse receipt system by financing assessment of the critical challenges of the current system, examine international experience, and identify concrete engagement models to encourage farmers as well as small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to use warehouses to improve incomes and financing.
- Support the policy and regulatory environment for increasing access to land and tenure security for commercially oriented smallholder and commercial farmers, and other actors in agricultural value chains.
- Support improvements in the regulatory environment to facilitate agribusiness and the commercialization of agriculture, focusing on public-private dialogue (PPD) and on standards and certification