Since 2008, FAO has been supporting value chain development for potato, maize, milk, passion fruit, cassava and pineapple, focusing on Burera, Gicumbi and Gisagara districts. All groups involved in these six value chains (19 cooperatives of 5 180 producers – of whom 2 640 women, 15 input suppliers, and 7 processors) are receiving assistance in accessing profitable markets, increasing their cash incomes from harvests and, above all, improving the nutritional status of their families. FAO’s assistance is in line with the Strategic Plan for Agricultural Transformation as well as the Crop Intensification Programme managed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (FAO).