增长谷物的增长计划于2021年9月正式开始，目的是在加纳开发包容性且经济可行的谷物供应链。目的是创造就业和企业家精神的机会，尤其是对妇女和青年。
计划实施计划后，IDH和主要业务合作伙伴（Guinness Ghane Ghane Breweries plc。2022年11月8日在阿克拉举行的研讨会，以审查进度，分享反馈，学习和确定未来战略决策和随后几年的适应机会。
总体而言，尽管全球经济衰退以及影响该行业业务的社会文化挑战，该计划已取得了一些值得称赞的进步，并为谷物部门和加纳北部小农户的生活做出了重大贡献。
该出版物旨在突出增长计划谷物第一年的关键要点。
在计划的第一年，来自加纳北部的玉米，米饭，小米和Fonio商品连锁店的20,924名小农户得到了支持该计划旨在在总计19,124英亩的农田中种植谷物。
具体而言，该计划对增加优质谷物的生产做出了重大贡献，包括通过促进：
这se program contributions are critical support mechanisms given the current landscape where there’s a drastic increase in cost of production due to high inflation, high cost of seeds and fertilizers, limited mechanization services, weather uncertainties from climate change, and depreciation of the local currency that deterred many farmers from producing grains in 2022.
随着所有商品的收获高潮（早期和晚期种植的谷物，例如米，玉米，fonio），该计划将于2022年12月，该计划估计28,105吨的综合产量预测将进一步补充并提高粮食安全（可访问性，可用性和利用率）该国的水平，减少进口，并增加农民的收入，这是由于谷物需求的高需求。在2023年，包括五个高粱中小型企业将继续增加谷物的产量在随后的几年中。
中小型企业在现有领土上扩展了他们在现有领土上的宣传，并通过对该计划的支持在第一年的支持中探索了新的社区。这项活动创造了超出目前该计划中的20,924个小农户及其社区的连锁反应。七个中小企业及其服务提供商由该计划签约，报告总共有105,093个新的，持续和改善的工作机会，通过农场各种活动(from crop production to harvest stages of activities) and off-farm (retailers, distributers, processors etc). A total of 461 administrative and field level staff were also employed by SMEs in 2022 in off-farm positions such as administrative jobs, drivers, retailers, distributers, agrochemical sprayers, processors, warehouse officers, and field level positions to meet the increasing activities and operations of SMEs, Service Providers, and farmers as well.
Ultimately, this has created vibrant economic activities in communities, entrepreneurship opportunities, and increased income for community members and will contribute to poverty reduction in northern Ghana. The on-farm jobs, where the majority of work have been created, were calculated and reported by SMES based on the number of people employed by their farmers to work on their farms during the various on-farm activities in a season per acre.总工作创造价值为GHC 2,748,898（相当于211,454美元）。
这progressive inclusion of women and youth under the Program will ensure that women and youth are economically empowered to expand their operations, increase their participation in agriculture become integral in commercial value chains, increase and sustain income, improve livelihoods, and actively contribute to food security and economic growth in northern Ghana.
这gender intentional design of the program ensured that all beneficiary SMEs were deliberate in their farmer selection process and disbursement of intervention inputs and this has facilitated the inclusion of more marginal social groups in communities.采用了60:40的规则（对女性的干预支持的60％，男性40％）为了确保诸如高质量种子，肥料，农艺培训和机械化服务等关键支持直接使妇女和青年小农户受益，这些农民由于获得肥沃的土地的机会有限而陷入低调，获得高质量的农业投入和服务，以及谷物生产的高成本。
该计划的故意干预措施为这些群体提供了商业种植的生命线，尤其是在加纳遇到的挑战性社会经济状况中，最初阻止了大多数耕种。社区的敏感性和游说活动为妇女提供土地，还促进了妇女的更多参与，并渴望在未来几年中扩大谷物生产，尤其是在该计划提供的准备就绪市场的保证下。
由于该计划的支持和影响，其他妇女团体也表示有兴趣在随后几年中加入该计划。目前，妇女占该计划的注册商业农民的53％，从最初的情况开始，中小型企业报道，青年占49％。
该计划支持中小企业超越其舒适区域，并根据诊断分析和服务交付模型（SDMS) that have resulted in a change in business practices. So far, SMEs report that these changes have proven profitable, inclusive, and further strengthened their business models.
从实验现金和携带系统，一个中小企业（WARC）是能够将计划的输入支持转移并增加收益十倍，在商业基础上使用叶面和有机肥料，基于水稻的中小型企业正在报告生产成本的大幅降低，收益率提高，制定战略业务计划，雇用专业人士，数字化，采用性别故意政策，飞行员regenerative agriculture, inclusion of mechanization services and as part of business services, investing in processing equipment to meet off-takers’ specifications and standards, among others, SMEs and their farmers are currently on course to reap further benefits from their alignment with the Program in subsequent years.
这onboarding of雀巢和吉尼斯加纳啤酒厂在该计划的第一年，以及与其他私营部门组织的高级互动，一直是中小型企业增加谷物生产的动力，以满足当地需求的巨大需求。仅在第一年就吸收预计谷物收益率为28,105吨的末端市场的可用性将使中小型企业预计总值为660万美元。这将注入进一步扩展的必要资本，以确保中小企业的可持续性，并确保他们为小农支付竞争力的价格。
企业和私营部门合作伙伴之间的长期商业关系和合作伙伴关系也通过计划的便利化建立了，从而提高了中小企业品牌的知名度，敞口，并确保其农产品的稳定长期市场。中小型企业正在利用这些机会吸引进一步的市场和投资，以建立处理设施，资本支出，增强业务模式，提高运营能力和效率，使其市场多样化，并使他们的运营更加有利可图和可持续。例如，第一年的一名中小企业Kedan能够购买价值8,500美元的光学分隔器处理设备，以满足雀巢生产优质谷物并成为长期供应商的要求。对这种设备的投资还将有助于中小型企业减少对单一非卫星的依赖，并利用计划及其他地区提供的更广泛的市场机会。
来自现场活动参与的经过验证的计划数据的分析和计划参与者的报告为改进计划提供了宝贵的见解和学习。其中一些包括：
这commencement of the digital service provision under the Program to SMEs and farmers by AgroCenta and onboarding all SMEs, and their farmers, on a single digital platform, when completed, will facilitate access to an ecosystem with various digital features, services (and Service Providers) and comprehensive farm management system that SMEs will benefit from. Features such as digital agronomy training, weather forecasting, payment of services, farm traceability and yield monitoring, access to finance, logistics support, among other critical needs will ensure digital inclusion and help businesses to digitize operations, ultimately, improving their service delivery, and production.
此外，逐渐推出气候智能农业实践，例如该计划下的再生农业目前为中小型企业及其农民提供了建立弹性气候变化影响的首要，并将其置于善于探索雀巢等高级买家的未来市场机会的好处，以及其他有未来野心的外来野心来自环保农场的商品的来源和付费溢价。采用此类实践还将确保对诸如肥料等昂贵和纯粹的合成投入的依赖减少，并减少其进口。雀巢特别打算到2025年从再生农田中获取25％的农产品，到2030年，到2050年为100％。
关于创新的融资，该计划团队与几个影响力的投资者互动，到目前为止，结果看起来很有希望。获得创新的资金，例如具有负担得起的利率的影响投资者将是改变游戏规则的人，并解锁了中小企业投资关键设备以提高生产，收获和加工效率的潜力，这将反映出增加的收益和质量。
Access to affordable finance and high-quality agro inputs, technical capacity building, and services are main areas that SMEs have identified that have the capability to ensure sustainability of the program and promote smallholder farmers’ independency in subsequent years。获得融资将为收入生成的几个机会释放，以扩展运营，投资加工设备和资本支出，使市场多样化并提高运营效率。这将使中小型企业提高到一个新的水平，并提高农民的商品价格。
IDH is currently in discussion with several financial institutions to secure some ‘patient capital’ – long term financing with flexible terms of payment, for SMEs。在现场层面上，建立更多的VSLA集团系统，并从计划中向她们提供初始种子资金支持，还将确保妇女，尤其是妇女可以继续增加贡献，转向资金并获得更多资本来扩展他们的农场通过他们的贡献而不依赖中小型企业。
当中小型企业获得支持以建立生产高质量种子的内部能力，而不是进口和受到市场动态状况的摆布时，可以解决高昂的投入情况。这将确保以更便宜的农民的价格获得优质种子，创造更多的就业机会和独立性，并节省小农户的生产成本。
Insights from the learnings from the first year have been documented and will be used for strategic programmatic decisions to ensure that successful systems and practices are adopted, and necessary recommendations and changes are made to improve areas of concern of partners. Specific areas such as access to affordable finance, improvement in quality of service delivery (production to harvest levels) and grains, and increase in premium end-market will be the focus to ensure that all other progressing components of the program fits into the complete picture of由当地成长和竞争的企业驱动的一个包容性且经济上可行的谷物供应连锁店，能够为高级市场提供优质的谷物，并为小农，尤其是妇女和青年创造就业和企业家的机会。
这雀巢中部和西非的农业服务主管奥利维尔·马尔坎德（Olivier Marchand）承认迄今为止的令人印象深刻的计划影响，给予了充满挑战的情况，并为持续的技术支持和承诺提供了保证，以消除该计划下生产的谷物。
该研讨会使我们有机会评估谷物对增长计划的影响，我们为取得的进展感到自豪。通过该计划，雀巢能够从小农和中小型企业购买优质的谷物。结果很明显，尽管还有很多事情要做，但我们看到正在产生巨大的影响。仍然可以改变和改进，但总的来说，我们期待着继续该计划，并感谢万事达卡基金会支持此计划，并感谢IDH协调所有这些基金会。
IDH的全球总监根据第一年和预测的结果，凯布·科利（Kebba Colley）是增长谷物的最初大脑和发起人的发起人，他对该计划的未来表示乐观。他向所有人保证，IDH将继续推动界限，以确保在计划中确保质量，并且该计划下的企业将有能力获得负担得起的资金和市场机会，以便能够最大化其潜力成为全球供应链的一部分国际业务。
该项目适用于下一代加纳，下一代农民，下一代食品加工者，品牌，市场营销以及您需要的任何农业空间，以及来自基础设施的适当融资，从营运资金，公司的CAPEX，来自公司的CAPEX，因此这些公司并不小，但它们成长为加纳的著名生产商，这些企业是雇用的企业，在该领域招募了很多工作。加纳需要它，加纳应该得到它，这需要这样做。
这万事达卡基金会国家主任, Rosy Fynn, expressed satisfaction with the results and coordination of the program. The Foundation has particularly taken some cues from the programmatic practices which will inform their program review process and designs in other sectors beyond Agriculture sector to ensure relevance and sustainability. During the Learning event, the Mastercard Foundation also announced their intention to commence immediate discussion with IDH on further scale-up of the program and other partnership opportunities. The scale-up will include horticulture value chains to empower more women, youth and create more jobs and income.
It has been really great working with IDH, I think they have got a model that works and we are looking forward to even more impacts in the future, and hopefully expand to other products beyond the grains we have today. So, great experience and looking forward to more impacts with IDH and off-takers like Nestle, etc.