Solution Scenario Concept: The purpose of the project is to improve the market access by smallholder potato and sweetpotato farmers and vegetable growers by fostering market-chain innovation to improve competitiveness of market chains in ways that benefit small farmers as well as other market chain actors in East and Southern Africa. The projects intends to achieve this by producing the following four outputs: (1) new market opportunities for potatoes, sweetpotatoes and other vegetables benefiting small farmers identified and taken up; (2) improved entrepreneurial, organizational and technical capacity of groups of farmers to identify and respond to new business opportunities; (3) strengthened capacity of service providers to respond dynamically to farmers’ needs in a market chain context; and (4) enhanced social capital to support market chains, build trust between actors, share knowledge and promote South-South learning.