Ethiopia Soufflet Heineken Malt Barley Supply Chain Development Project

Selection Number: 1265482

Contract Description: Ethiopia Soufflet Heineken Malt Barley Supply Chain Development Project

To assist the operations of its investment clients, IFC intends to support an advisory project to substantially increase the local sourcing of commercially available malt barley from smallholder and emergent commercial farmers in Ethiopia. The three-year project would facilitate the expansion of local sourcing from current levels (20KMT) to around 80 KMT of raw malt barley from 40,000 farmers by the end of the project.
The project will be focused on 23 woreda in Arsi, West Arsi, Bale and Shewa zones. IFC requires consultant services to assist with improving the malt barley production capacity of farmers in these areas. The work will have the following subcomponents:

• Improving farmers access to improved seed varieties
• Improving farmers access to other inputs such as crop protection products and fertilizer
• Building the agronomic and technical capacity of barley producers