Post-Harvest Handling (Consultant) job at International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC)

About IFDC

IFDC is a public international organization active in 27 countries in Africa, Asia, and America. IFDC uniquely approaches the global issues of food security and poverty by bridging the gap between research and impact, combining science-based innovations, holistic market systems development, an enabling policy environment, and strategic partnerships to assist farmers and countries to identify and scale sustainable agricultural solutions, including improved nutrient use efficiency. These approaches are needed to boost soil health and crop productivity while reducing the environmental impact of fertilizer use. IFDC translates research into action by using locally driven, environmentally sound, and impact-oriented solutions. With our partners, we seek to close the yield gap, eradicate global hunger, safeguard the soil on which our lives depend, and generate economic resilience for farming households and the countries in which they live.

Summary of the assignment 

IFDC’s BRIGHT project is seeking services of an individual or Firm consultant to contribute to improving farmers’ knowledge and skills in reducing post-harvest losses, by conducting practical trainings and construction of low cost drying and storage facilities in the highland areas of Kigezi, Elgon, and Rwenzori.

Responsibilities

1. Support farmers in recording lower post-harvest losses through the adoption of appropriate low-cost storage technologies at household and aggregation (group) levels;
2. Train 3,080 small-holder farmers (in groups of 40), 12 Field officers and 47 field extension workers on appropriate low-cost storage technologies for potato (ware and seed), maize, beans, sorghum, coffee, and banana by end of May 2025. In Rwenzori, Elgon, and Kigezi region with a ratio of 40:30:30 respectively;
3. Construct diffused light and ware potato stores with capacity 10-20MTs with support from the local communities;
4. Train trainers of trainers (TOT) in construction of storage facilities and construct 231 granaries of different types, pics bags, and 77 solar driers with a goal of setting up a demo and capacitating local artisans;
5. Train BRIGHT staff in post-harvest handling and the use of low-cost storage technologies in the three regions and demonstrate how to make use of some of the technologies and construct sample storages for demonstration;
6. Provide linkages to market to source for materials to be used in construction especially the non-locally available materials.

Deliverables for the consultant

By the end of the contract, the consultant will be required to deliver the following:

1. Construct 231 cereal granaries of a capacity of 500kgs each and 77 solar driers of 25-30kgs each (3 granaries of different types and 1 solar drier per project village) as demonstration sites at household level;
2. Construct 6 farmer group potato storage facilities (3 diffused light and 3 Ambient stores, one of each type per region) with capacity 10-20MTs;
3. Train and demonstrate pic bag technologies and provide demonstration samples at the 77 demo hosting households;
4. Provide the unit cost of each of the storage facilities to the farmers;
5. Provide a report specifying all the above outputs, the methodology used to achieve them, lessons learned and recommendations.

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