Leveraging Opportunities for Systemic Change: Insights from a Market Systems and Performance Baseline of the Rwandan Food System
- Partner: USAID Feed the Future, Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA)
- Publication Type: Learning Brief
- Date: June 5, 2024
- Team: Noura Kamel, Ellie Rakoff, Daniel Gies, Cyprien Nsengiyumva, and Thomas Arminio
- Recommended Citation: MarketShare Associates and CNFA. Leveraging Opportunities for Systemic Change: Insights from a Market Systems and Performance Baseline of the Rwandan Food System Washington, D.C.: United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Prepared by Noura Kamel, Ellie Rakoff, Daniel Gies, Cyprien Nsengiyumva, and Thomas Arminio through the Feed the Future Hinga Wunguke Activity, 2024.
This learning brief presents baseline learnings to inform stakeholders and activities striving towards more inclusive and equitable agricultural market systems. Conducted under the USAID Feed the Future Rwanda Hinga Wunguke Activity, the study aimed to capture market system health and dynamics by measuring business innovation and trust and cooperation. It examined ecological factors that affected food intake, while focusing on the key objectives of inclusion, sustainable approaches, and nutritional improvement. Other areas addressed included agricultural practices and access to markets.
The brief examines the following aspects:
- Innovation
- Trust and cooperation
- Nutrition and food intake
- Value creation
- Agricultural practices
Core findings identified constraints in the market system and uncovered opportunities for the Hinga Wunguke to maximize impact, innovation, and growth in Rwanda using market system development approaches.
This summary brief was originally published by Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA) on Marketlinks on June 5, 2024.
