Mercy Corps - Baseline Survey of Linking Laputta to Markets(LLM)- LIFT Delta 3 - 2016

Project Description:

The aim of the Baseline survey of Linking Laputta to Markets (LLM) was ‘increased incomes for landless, vulnerable and smallholder households in Laputta Township’. Two higher-level outcomes (HLOs) will contribute to this goal: Total projected beneficiaries for the LLM project is 5,100 HHs from 276 villages.

MKE took responsibility to produce outcomes: HLO 1: Improved performance of smallholder farmers in the rice value chain; HLO 2: Landless and vulnerable women and men have stability of income from diverse off-farm employment and economic opportunities. Intermediate outcomes include

a) farmer producer enterprises (FPEs) operating as professional market actors

b) smallholder farmers adopting improved agricultural practices

c) landless women and men benefitting from improved employment opportunities.