- Capacity Building
- Market Information
- Partnerships & Donors
- Project Design & Implementation
Knowledge that turns
into better prices.
ACE Trust’s capacity building initiatives equip farmers and farmer organisations with the skills, knowledge, and ongoing support needed to adopt best agricultural practices and participate competitively in structured trade.
The ACE Marketing School is a three-day training delivered to thirty members of a partner farmer organisation, covering ACE services, market information, collective marketing and aggregation, trade facilitation, an introduction to the Warehouse Receipt System, the input supply model, and how to develop and follow a marketing plan.
Training alone is not enough. Every trainee receives price information by SMS, and ACE Rural Marketing Advisors provide ongoing advice in the field — turning newly acquired knowledge into improved market access and higher prices.
Programmes delivered
and institutionalised.
- ACE Marketing School (AMS).
- AMS for Leaders, for farmer organisation leadership.
- MSME Structured Trade Training Module.
- Warehouse Marketing and Management Committee Training Programme.
- GIZ’s Farmer Business School, institutionalised into ACE’s service offering.
- Ongoing field support from ACE Rural Marketing Advisors.
A graduation scheme,
not a one-off course.
Assessment
Farmer organisation assessments identify which groups to engage and what support they need, alongside needs assessments for MSMEs.
Delivery
Trainings are tailored to the group’s current capacity, progress, and previous engagement with ACE and structured trade services.
Follow-up
Marketing plan follow-ups, quarterly surveys, field supervision, and close-out meetings after each marketing season.
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Increase in farmer uptakeRecorded between 2017 and 2019 following combined training and market information.
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Increase in average volume tradedBy farmer organisations over the same period.
Smallholder farmers trained
In structured markets.
