iDE Mozambique

iDE was founded 40 years ago with the belief that markets lift people out of poverty. We catalyze change in markets by incentivizing low income people to establish locally-led scalable solutions that are passed down through generations and founded on mutually beneficial partnerships.

Powering entrepreneurs to build resilience.

In Mozambique, we help build local economies and value chains that deliver goods and services to “last mile” customers in remote areas. We do this by building networks of small scale entrepreneurs that power “resilient market ecosystems’’, boosting incomes of marginalized people, medium-sized commercial farmers and the private sector.

READ: Farm Business Advisors

iDE Mozambique has connected over 1,200 farmer clients to loans to run their farms, with an average of US$2,758 per loan. Additionally, savings and loans groups provide capital to members enabling them to invest and expand their business services.

iDE Mozambique has developed a Farming As A Family Business approach, which helps transform women into lead household decision-makers, transforming gender-related norms and uplifting women farmers.

READ: Women’s roles in decision-making

As iDE leverages market ecosystems to boost agricultural productivity, we help farmers adapt to changing weather patterns by training them to grow climate-change resistant crops, introducing outward facing climate services, using organic forms of production with the aim of diversifying revenue streams.

WATCH: Farmers recover from cyclone

For the benefits of a market system to be sustainable, the system itself needs to mitigate, adapt, and recover in the face of climate change, conflict, and other shocks and stressors. iDE’s Market System Resilience Index (MSRI), enables us to measure the strength of relationships among participants within a market system, helping us adapt our approach and direct our efforts to building relationships where necessary.