To improve the market opportunities for smallholder farmers, AGRA’s Market Access Program is investing in: 1. Reducing transaction costs by improving farm storage technologies; facilitating the Development of warehouse receipt systems; commodity exchanges; and market information systems that provide timely and accurate information to smallholders. 2. Value addition to farmers’ crops by supporting efforts to institute grades and standards, and develop low cost small- and medium-scale processing facilities for drying, sorting and packaging. 3. Increasing demand for commodities by developing markets for alternative uses, such as processing cassava for animal feed. 4. Promoting an enabling Environment by improving access to credit and removing inappropriate government policies that create major challenges for a variety of stakeholders across staple food commodity value chains in Africa.