KEY MESSAGES
- Description: Honey Care Africa has integrated the bee-keeping value chain in Eastern Africa to directly purchase honey from more than 9 000 small producers
- Specificity: Elimination of intermediaries and use of mobile payment
- Impact: +20% income for the producers
FUNCTIONING
Grouping of traditional bee-keepers and purchase of their honey
Supply through loans of new modern hives (installation, maintenance, etc.)
Elimination of 4 - 5 intermediary levels
Use of modern technologies to reduce costs (crowdfunding platform, mobile payment)
SCOPE
TANZANIA / KENYA / SOUTH SUDAN
9 000 farmers reached
(of which 2 700 equipped with hives)
BUDGET
Still to be financed: $ 1,5 M in 2015
IMPACTS
Agricultural productivity
+15 to 30% of the productivity of some neighboring crops through better pollination by the bees
Climate change
Agroforestry and protection program being launched
Sustainable dev. goals
+20% of purchase premium for the producers
NEXT STEPS
Search for $ 1,5 M (in capital, debt and subsidy) to support the growth of the organization and develop new markets within its three countries of operation