Improving Production&Market Capacity of Smallholder Fruit&Vegetable Farmers in Southern Africa In Mozambique, South Africa, and Zambia, training in local-gap and global-gap has improved the food safety of horticulture in the project. 2,207 farmers are now meeting the agreed standard producing horticulture on 5,550 hectares. With good practices improving, access to capital and a more stable connection with the market become the major challenges. Slowly, market linkages are being developed but farmers continue to struggle to meet the market quantity, quality and food-safety requirements. Pilots with the “fresh-hubs“, downstream pack-houses for cold chain logistics, are promising but need time outside the Covid-19 reality to prove effective when conditions normalize. The pandemic caused a considerable reduction in logistics and therefore income and the capacity to contract loans. In 2020, we successfully supported 559 farmers to obtain new loans, a reduction of 42% compared to the year before. The programme is closely linked to the intensive policy dialogue on setting regulatory frameworks for sustainable and safe fruit and vegetables in the region, covered under our Advocacy for Change programme. The training and following practice has materialized the Mozbopa standard as the national reference for the sector in Mozambique. A nice example of how Practice and Advocacy projects can become complementary and reinforce processes.