Iringa Hope
Delivering agricultural financing, marketing, and training to farmers in southern Tanzania.
Iringa Hope uses a unique model to deliver agricultural financing, marketing, and training to smallholder farmers in Tanzania. The organization develops self-governed and self-sustaining member owned and operated cooperative societies that help to alleviate poverty and empower agricultural entrepreneurs.
Rural Iringa’s average annual family income is $300, but an Iringa Hope member is able to triple that income by tripling their agricultural yields. There are currently 3200 cooperative members improving their livelihoods, impacting their communities, and developing the regional economy.
An Update on the Market Center
We’re making great progress on the Market Center!
A New Opportunity for Iringa Hope AMCOS to Sell Maize Crops to the World Food Program
On March 6, 2020, Dickson Msungu, AMCOS[1] Manager, Venance Msigala, Agronomist and Norm Siekman, Iringa Hope Board Member met with Michael Dunford, the World Food Program (WFP) Country Representative for Tanzania in Dar es Salaam to propose Iringa Hope as a strategic...
Announcing a New Market Center!
At Iringa Hope we continue to look for ways to help our members increase their incomes. Our early work focused on providing education and training, access to financing for planting, and, more recently, ready access to quality fertilizer and seeds at reasonable...
2020 Impact
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Income
180% Increase in Family Incomes
Loans
2000+ Individual Loans
Average Amount $406
Repayment rate 95%
Jobs
1500+ additional jobs created by members
Crop Storage & Marketing Pilot Program
47% Increase in price for Maize