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$Mozambique, Nampula province\nApril 2010\n\nNhemba beans and maize surplus harvested for personal consumption. \nThese products are what makes up these villagers day to day diet. Local women in Mozambique after a small harvest.\n\nPhoto: WFP/Ken Davies$

$Mozambique, Nampula province\nApril 2010\n\nOn the left Claudia Santos, the Mozambique P4P representitive and on the right Punan Chaudulal, pose infront of the new plumpy nut factory. \nThis particular project has been funded by JAM a South African non profit NGO.\n\nPhoto: WFP/Ken Davies$

$El Salvador, February 22nd 2010\n\nACALESA is a farmers\'organization in the small town of San Esteban Catarina El Salvador, who benefit from the P4P initiative setup up there. \nMembers of the organization are in the process of selling their maize to WFP as part of the project.\nThis is a first for this particular organisation, \nselling to WFP. \nUnlike when selling to the coyotes‚(the middle men who normally buy basic grains from smallholder farmers immediately after the harvest at the farm gate), farmers have to dry, select, clean and bag the maize. \nDespite demanding additional work, farmers are able to sell at a better price because they are offering a better product. \nMembers of the organization all stated that it was worth the extra work because the benefits obtained from this process increased their profit margins, and overall income. \n\nThe harsh terrain the farmers are able to succesfully harvest their crops on.\n\nPhoto: WFP/Laura Melo$

$Sierra Leone, March 8th 2010\n\nUnder the approval process to finalize their implementation plan.\nA feasibility report and an assessment mission have also been conducted to explore the pro-smallholder processing options. \nSix farmer organizations with approximately 4,000 members (81 percent of which are women)\nhave already been identified as potential targets for capacity-building activities.\nHoward G. Buffett Foundation is providing the technical funding for the P4P initiative and further elaboration of the plan is expected to be finalized in the implementation plan by the end of 2009.\n\nPhoto: WFP/Photolibrary$

$Guatemala, February 27th 2010\n\nSan Miguel, in department of Retalhuleu, on the pacific coast, south of Guatemala. This association is part of P4P.\nMembers of Monte Cristo farmers\' association, in dept of Retalhuleu, south of Guatemala.\n\nPhoto: WFP/Laura Melo$

$Haiti, April 2010\n\nThe World Food Program and other United Nations aid agencies are scaling up their humanitarian operations for millions of Haitians affected by the earthquake, which devastated their country in mid-January. \nThe World Food Program reports it is beginning a program to provide cooked meals for thousands of school children.\nBut, it notes humanitarian needs in Haiti remain great and the emergency phase of humanitarian relief operations will have to continue for many months.\nIn line with this reality, the World Food Program says it will begin providing cooked meals for children in 19 schools in the capital Port-au-Prince on Monday. \nIt says the aim is to reach some 50,000 children in 70 schools with cooked meals over the coming weeks.\n\nThe World Food Program has distributed essential food rations to two-million hungry people \nin and around Port-au-Prince since the earthquake struck. And, spokeswoman, Emilia Cassela, says a special rice distribution program started a few weeks ago is reaching many more people.\n\nPhoto: WFP/Alejandro Chiceri$

$Kenya, February 22nd 2010\n\nElaine Reinke went to Kenya to support the local M&E team (Lorna Likhanga, Barbara Leseni, Grace Igweta, Beatrice Mwongela) in the training of externally hired enumerators for the data collection of the P4P baseline survey. \nThe training was conducted between February 15 and 22, the actual data collection between February 23 and March 20 all 2010. \nThis entailed interviews with smallholder farmers and traders (the farmer organization survey had been completed prior to this exercise by WFP staff). \nThe enumerators were informed about the global P4P initiative, the programme in Kenya, and the global P4P M&E system. \nThe main part of the training consisted of discussing the data collection format in detail to ensure that the enumerators understand each question and why is it relevant to P4P. When discussing each question, it was also translated into the local language. \nAfter five days of training and practice in class, we did two days of field-testing. \nThe enumerators visited smallholder farmers in the training area to practice the questionnaire in a real field setting. After each test day we conducted a de-briefing to discuss the enumerators\' feedback on their performance and clarify any remaining issues before they were eventually released to the field for data collection.\n\nA P4P field test in progress, checking the quality of the crops produced by smallholder farmers in the Kitui district, Kenya.\n\nPhoto: WFP/Elaine Reinke$

$Ethiopia, March 17th 2010\n\nThe warehouse belonging to the Sidama Elto Cooperative Union, full with P4P quality approved maize, ready for WFP to purchase at a respectable rate for the smallholder farmers\' organisation\n\nPhoto: WFP/Elaine Reinke$

$Mozambique, Zambezia province\nApril 2010\n\nThe director of the IKURU Farmers\' Organisation. \nReposa is seen standing outside his head office in Mozambique with a staff member. \nThe IKURU cooperative buys locally produced maize and nhemba beans, and sell them back to WFP under the purchase for progress programme.\n\nPhoto: WFP/Ken Davies$

$Mozambique, Zambezia province,\nApril 2010\n\nA 50kg sack of locally grown nhemba beans. This particular batch has been locally grown here in Mozambique, and will go on to be sold to more local farmers. Once sold the farmers are expected to harvest their crops and sell to WFP under the purchase for progress programme.\n\nPhoto: WFP/Ken Davies$

$Zambia, May 26th 2009\n\nWFP is working with the recently established trading platform, the Zambia Agricultural Commodity Exchange (ZAMACE). \nSellers (represented by their brokers) register their crop describing location and quality of the commodity. \nThen buyers put in their bids.\nZAMACE is establishing a network of certified warehouses where farmers and traders store commodities to sell later in the marketing season, when prices are higher. \nWFP and partners are supporting farmers‚ organisations meet the quantity and quality standards required to access the certified warehouses. \nBy helping smallholder farmers access this platform, WFP contributes to strengthening the market, promoting price transparency and providing an alternative market outlet for farmers.\n\nFarmers from the local farmers\' organisation discuss and de-brief after at the end of a day of rigorous WFP and P4P staff member inspections. \n\nPhoto: WFP/Claire Mbizule$

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