FSRE Fund - Food Security and Rural Entrepreneurship Fund

Food Security and Rural Entrepreneurship Fund (FSRE Fund) is financed by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (EKN) and managed by ICCO Cooperation on behalf of AgriProFocus Ethiopia. The fund is set up to finance activities that improve the food security of farming families and enhance income, investments and jobs in agriculture, especially for farmers, producer organisations and small and medium enterprises.

The Fund provides grants through two winds of funding Innovative and Matching Grant Funds Innovative Fund: supporting innovations in agricultural production and value chains that put a new idea or technology into use. It is a one year support project but with good reason could be for a year and half duration for a single value chain. Innovation : ‘in this context implies a new knowledge, a new product, the use of new equipment, new ways of organising work processes or structuring business relations, etc. and becomes an innovation when it improves how things are done, is economically viable and is applied by a significant number of people/organisations’. A fund amount up to 100,000 Euro per value chain/year