This project is a co-financing project with following expected results : - New crops (Artemisia, Rosella and Jatropha) have been introduced (2100 farmers) and promoted (3500 farmers); - Improved access to agricultural inputs (seeds, mushroom spores); - Improved access to markets (60 reception centers, 4 markets for new crops, 5600 farmers have access to market information); - Increased knowledge on organic production (6300 farmers introduction + 311 groups have access to standards manual); - Transparent and participative policy structures (all levels); - Strategic alliances with relevant service providers; - Improvement of financial and administrative management systems;

Vanilla is offering an alternative for coffee as cash crop in East African countries such as Tanzania. International marketing opportunities exist, but need to be used. Mayawa (the organisation of vanilla farmers in Bukoba) have the advantage that their organisation also has the knowledge and infrastructure to cure the fresh beans and to produce high quality cured vanilla. The production process (from the green beans to the cured vanilla) needs to be improved on different levels. Therefore, a contract farming model will be worked out to spell out the duties of both parties (Mayawa and its farmers). Part of the contract is delivery of services by Mayawa to its farmers. For the establishment and/or improvement of those services, this project foresees a budget for a marketing study, improvement of extension services, improvement of input supply, establishment of a purchasing circuit, establishment of a market info system to the farmers (by means of a newsletter), design of a website and the hiring and training of a marketing manager.