The Scaling-up Agri-Food Innovations (SAFI) project was launched under the USAID-funded Agriculture and Rural Empowerment (ARE) activity, with the objective to increase the private sector competitiveness locally and internationally and improve the livelihoods of vulnerable groups.
The project addresses the need to equip the agri-business sector and rural communities with the technical and financial resources to generate increased productivity, sales and exports while improving producer income.
The project covers two cycles of eight months each of acceleration, technical and in-kind support for eight SMEs with scalable solutions that can substitute an imported product, decrease the import of at least one raw material/input product or provide a service that helps in reducing import dependency in Lebanon.
SAFI’s main objectives are: