World Ag Info Project Design Team2019-06-272019-06-272007https://hdl.handle.net/1813/66604WorldAgInfo Project Solution Scenario 3: Developing Capacity at the Community Level. Based on the deliberations of participant groups in Workshop 1, the WorldAgInfo Design Team drafted a problems and solutions summary document (available within Section Three of the Final Report). This is one of several potential solution scenarios to emerge through that process. These were in turn used to inform proposed information projects generated by Workshop 2 participants in Livingstone, Zambia (available within Section Two of the Final Report).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.en-USInformation SystemsAgricultureICTAgricultural DevelopmentInternational DevelopmentAgricultural EducationEnhancing innovation capacity and market access of smallholder potato and sweetpotato farmers and vegetable growers in East and Southern Africareport