date:May 22, 2012
ania) are worth $1.5m (1.17m) and $2m respectively, and will begin this year to support development of agricultural communities across Africa, an aim that Diageo said was consistent with its African growth ambitions.
Sorghum value chain
In Ethiopia, a public-private partnership with the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) will see Diageo design and test a pilot barley contract farming project, to source 1,000 MT of barley from local smallholders in its first year of operation.