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Info Note Rwanda Dairy Competitiveness Program II

Year of publication 2016

Pages 11p.

Author Grewer, U., Nash, J., Galford, G., Wollenberg L.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

ISBN No ISBN

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) RDCP II was a 5-year project funded by the Feed the Future (FTF) initiative. Land O’Lakes has implemented the project in 17 districts across all five provinces of Rwanda. This project aimed to reduce poverty through expanded production and marketing of quality milk that generates income and employment, and improves nutrition of rural households. The activity’s development hypothesis was that improving raw milk quality and efficiency of production, together with marketing all along the dairy valu e chain, would pay high returns to public and private investment.

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