Project Sparrow
Project Sparrow which is currently implemented by LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited is designed to stimulate angel investments and concessionary loans into a carefully selected portfolio of innovative SMEs that will identify and impact at least 25,000 farmers across 5 agricultural value chains (Cowpea, Soya, Maize, Rice and Aquaculture).
Funded By:
Supporting Startups & MSMEs
Start-ups will be prepared for investments via an investment readiness program that gets them to a carefully selected pipeline of entities in the focus sector. This will enable them to rapidly prototype while digitizing, gain commercialization and market entry advice, get direct support for their fundraising, and even more critically gain advice for business growth and expansion after successful financing.
Project Sparrow is in line with the U.S. Government’s Feed the Future initiative to improve “agriculture productivity by connecting smallholder farmers to resources (often developed by scalable innovative SMEs)”.
How to apply
> Check the eligibility criteria to make sure you are fit to apply.
> Click on the application link
> Review your application again, and click submit
Application timeline
>Application portal opens – December 15 2021
>Application portal closes – March 12 2022
>Successful candidates contacted by end of March 2022
Evaluation criteria
> Target crop value chains: maize, rice, cowpea, soya bean, and aquaculture.
> Program applicants’ business or direct impact must be situated in one or more of the following target WATIH States – Kaduna, Niger, Ebonyi, Cross River, Benue, Delta, and Kebbi.
Key Stats
Farmers
Months
Feed the Future States
Crop Value Chains (Maize, Cowpea, Soya, Rice and Aquaculture)
Funded By:
Project Sparrow
Project Sparrow which is currently implemented by LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited is designed to stimulate angel investments and concessionary loans into a carefully selected portfolio of innovative SMEs that will identify and impact at least 25,000 farmers across 5 agricultural value chains (Cowpea, Soya, Maize, Rice and Aquaculture).
Funded By:
Supporting Startups & MSMEs
Start-ups will be prepared for investments via an investment readiness program that gets them to a carefully selected pipeline of entities in the focus sector. This will enable them to rapidly prototype while digitizing, gain commercialization and market entry advice, get direct support for their fundraising, and even more critically gain advice for business growth and expansion after successful financing.
Project Sparrow is in line with the U.S. Government’s Feed the Future initiative to improve “agriculture productivity by connecting smallholder farmers to resources (often developed by scalable innovative SMEs)”.
How to apply
> Check the eligibility criteria to make sure you are fit to apply.
> Click on the application link
> Review your application again, and click submit
Application timeline
>Application portal opens – December 15 2021
>Application portal closes – March 12 2022
>Successful candidates contacted by end of March 2022
Evaluation criteria
> Target crop value chains: maize, rice, cowpea, soya bean, and aquaculture.
> Program applicants’ business or direct impact must be situated in one or more of the following target WATIH States – Kaduna, Niger, Ebonyi, Cross River, Benue, Delta, and Kebbi.
Key Stats
Farmers
Months
Feed the Future States
Crop Value Chains (Maize, Cowpea, Soya, Rice and Aquaculture)
Funded By: