SPREAD works to strengthen the agribusiness process, resulting in exceptional products & improved livelihoods for the Rwandan farmer. Sustaining Partnerships to Enhance Rural Enterprise and Agribusiness Development (SPREAD) is a developmental alliance among U.S. and Rwandan universities, U.S. and European industries, Rwandan enterprises and institutions, and U.S. and Rwandan NGOs. Funded by USAID, SPREAD is led by the prestigious Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture at Texas A&M University. SPREAD targets rural Rwandan agricultural cooperatives and enterprises involved in high value commodity chains and provides them with appropriate technical assistance and access to health related services and information that will result in increased and sustained incomes and improved livelihoods.