Walmart to start 2 new grants in India

Walmart Foundation announced two new grants in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha, with the aim to improve the livelihood of smallholder farmers through the Farmer Producer Organization (FPO) framework.

With the first grant the foundation aims to give $3 million to TechnoServe for smallholder farmers in Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh aiming to reach 24 FPOs and 30,000 farmers, with 50% of them expected to be women.

The second grants aims to give $533,876 grant to Trickle Up aiming to reach 1,000 women smallholder farmers in Odisha, connecting them with two FPOs.


“The two grants are a part of new five-year strategy that aims to reach 1 million smallholder farmers by 2028 with at least 50% women,” said Kathleen McLaughlin, Executive Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer, Walmart Inc. and President, Walmart Foundation.

The Walmart Foundation grants will focus on enabling local grantees to better support capacity building for farmer producer organizations (FPOs), expanding access to market linkages so that they can participate in commercial opportunities more seamlessly, and training farmers on sustainable farming methods and technology, with a particular focus on empowering women farmers.

Through these investments, Walmart Foundation grantees project they will cumulatively support over 800,000 smallholder farmers.