About CNFA Moldova CNFA is an organization for international development from USA, founded in 1985, which is dedicated to increasing rural incomes by empowering farmers and rural entrepreneurs. CNFA activity is focused on agricultural development based on initiatives to facilitate market access, enhance agribusiness competitiveness, increase productivity, and improve access to inputs and credit for businesses. CNFA is currently implementing agricultural development projects in more than 20 developing countries. CNFA has a successful track record of performance in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia, and has managed over $200 million in donor-funded agriculture development programs over the past decade. Most of the CNFA projects are sharing the following concept: "if you want for a person not to starve neither today nor in the future, don’t give him a fish, give him a fishing rod instead and teach him how to fish".
CNFA has been operating for 16 years in the Republic of Moldova. CNFA is currently implementing the five-year Farmer-to-Farmer Program (FtF), worth $2.5 million, and has recently concluded the $12 million-worth Agribusiness Development Program.
John Ogonowski Farmer-to-Farmer Program (currently under implementation) The Farmer-to-Farmer Program (FtF) was launched in the Republic of Moldova in October 1999 with a projected operational period of four years. It was eventually prolonged twice - in the years 2003 and 2008; its current phase will last until the year 2013. The program is funded by the United States Government through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The FtF Program provides farmers’ associations, cooperatives and agribusinesses with the opportunity to benefit from free American consultancy in order to improve their performances, providing them with a professional approach to the technical and financial issues.
The main objectives of the FtF Program in Moldova are:
- To increase the private farmers’ income by assisting them to initiate group commercial activities;
- To facilitate the access to credits for the private farmers and agricultural businessmen by gaining more knowledge on planning and financial management issues;
- To strengthen the agribusinesses which contribute to the economic development and the development of rural communities.
The Agribusiness Development Project (concluded in September, 2009) The Agribusiness Development Project (ADP) was launched in June 2004 with funding from USAID to improve the international competitiveness of the Moldovan High Value Agricultural Sector and boost its trade potential to enter export markets.
In June 2004, CNFA® launched the 5-year, $12.2 million USAID Moldova Agribusiness Development Project (ADP, also known as PDBA in Romanian). Building on previous successful implementation of the USAID-funded Private Farmer Commercialization Program, ADP aims to increase rural incomes and employment by improving the international competitiveness of Moldova's high value agriculture sector to boost its export potential and trade capacity.
ADP will strengthen Moldova’s high value agricultural sector by addressing four major links of the value chain:
- Ensure wide access to market information to penetrate new export markets, diversify product lines and better meet demand;
- Establish and strengthen competitive agribusinesses, particularly export oriented value adding enterprises;
- Improve farmer capacity to supply the volume and quality of agriculture products needed to sustain competitive exports;
- Establish producer and industry associations to facilitate cooperation up and down the chain.
ADP assistance targets the High Value Agriculture (HVA) sector consisting of fruits and vegetables from five cluster groups: fresh products, frozen products, dried products, canned/pickled products and niche market products (e.g. walnuts, essential oil, honey, organic produce, herbs, etc.) This assistance will address the constraints and challenges faced by the various points (i.e. producers, processors, exporters) within the agricultural value chains of the five clusters.
 Beneficiaries of ADP assistance are commercially oriented small-scale HVA producers, commercially significant export oriented HVA agribusinesses, exporters/wholesalers of HVA products, as well as associations of HVA producers, agribusinesses and exporters.
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