ProEcon – GIZ / COMO Consult

In GIZ's local company promotion programme, with COMO Consult as implementing partner, each company partnership aims to improve competitiveness and benefit the smallholders who sell to it — and COMO highlights digital solutions, such as barcodes, for transparency and traceability in supply chains. ProEcon's partner companies worked with thousands of smallholders but recorded everything on paper. In 2020 GIZ decided to build its own software for them, after assessing around 20 companies.

From the FAMS launch in February 2021 until November 2023, Edson took the system to ten agribusinesses: requirements, data migration, configuration, training and support. Requests from these clients became modules he built himself in the backend — among them, in 2023, the cotton fibre factory of Sociedade de Mutuali.

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   Implementing and coding in the same team

   Because the implementer was also the person writing the backend, field requests quickly became product releases, recorded in the changelog.

No publishable screens: the system needs real data to run or is no longer online.

agribusinesses with FAMS deployed

10

value chains

4

official FAMS launch

Fev 2021

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  SDG 2 · Zero Hungerprimary

  Ten agribusinesses in four value chains moved from paper records to digital registration and follow-up of the smallholders who sell to them.

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  SDG 9 · Industry, Innovation and Infrastructurecomplementary

  FAMS was born in this programme as the digital infrastructure of GIZ's partner companies, with traceability and barcodes for transparency along the chain.

• COMO Consult — promoting local companies in Mozambique and their suppliers (opens in a new tab)