FOODNET was launched in 1999 as an ASARECA post harvest and market research network for East and Central Africa implemented by IITA.  In addition, however, Foodnet has been implementing, backstopping and collaborating on many other post harvest and marketing information projects and programmes funded outside the main ASARECA framework by a consortia of donors including, USAID (ACDI-VOCA), GOU (NAADS, MAAIF). Other organisations that have supported FOODNET include CTA, RELMA NRI. 

FOODNET mainly focuses on agricultural value chain analyses, market studies, market and marketing information services, agro collective enterprise development, and related business development support services aimed to facilitate linking agricultural producers, who are mainly smallholders to markets

FOODNET works with both public and private partners and is currently implementing Uganda’s Livestock Market Services (LiMIS) supported by Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries(MAAIF) while also collaborating with FarmGain Africa Ltd to disseminate crop price information.

Contacts

Plot 15, East Naguru Rd, (Opposite WBS-TV mast) Upper Naguru Hill,
P. O. Box 7878, Kampala, Uganda

Tel: 256-41-285060 / 285064, Fax: 256-41-285129

Website: www.fooodnet.cgiar.org  

Email: mis@iita-uganda.org