Rwanda, Africa Building business by value addition of food products in Rwanda and reduction of post-harvest losses

Project number : OKP-TMT.21/00095

Requesting party (and partners):

School of Agriculture and Food Sciences – College of Agriculture, Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine (SAFS)

IPRC Musanze

IPRC Kigali

Consortium partners Q-point

GrowthAfrica (Kenia)

Africa Development Consultant Ltd. (ADC, Rwanda)

The involved institution

DFST

The Department of Food Science and Technology (DFST) was founded in 1999 in the former Kigali Institute of Food Science and Technology (currently UR-CAVM). UR-CAVM and Q-Point already collaborate successfully in several agro and food projects since 2013.

Capacity building

The post-harvest incubation unit needs capacity building to strengthen its incubation services and to be able to reach out more to the community for business development support. The strategy aims for more effective incubation services, more linkages with the incubation and acceleration network in Rwanda, creating more impact for the FST students and graduates.

The training builds the capacity of the incubator staff members and trainers from DFST and UR-CAVM to be better able to support incubates in transforming business ideas into practice and to help the incubates develop small sustainable businesses that can help transform the lives of the entrepreneurs and that of their families and communities.