Agricultural Productivity and Market Enhancement Project (APMEP)

To contribute to economic growth and food security

COUNTRY/REC Zambia

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD January 2014 - March 2022

PROJECT SITE Central

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 Ministry of Agriculture 3,610,000.00
2 AfDB
3 GAFSP 31,120,000.00
4 Beneficiaries 140,000.00

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 34,870,000.00 0 0
Loan 0 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 34,870,000.00 - 0
Project Goal

To contribute to economic growth and food security

Project Objectives

To contribute to economic growth and poverty reduction by enhancing food, income, and nutrition security, among participating households

Project activities

Agriculture Production and Productivity

Value Chain Development and Market Linkages

Institutional Strengthening

Beneficiaries

Direct Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number
1 Men 41250
2 Women 33750
3 Youth 2000
Indirect Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number

RICE Approach: Areas of contribution by the project

Resilience Industrialization Competitiveness Empowerment
R1: Area under irrigation
I1: Capacity of industrial mills
C1: Share of local rice
E1: Access to financial services
R2: Quantity of resilient seeds
I2: Mechanization ratio
C2: Quantity of high-yielding seeds
E2: Access to technical services

SIEM

Policy / Institutional Infrastructure Human Resource Capacity Provision of Equipments or services Knowledge / Research
Seed
Fertilizer
Irrigation / water management
On-farm technology transfer
Mechanization
Quality Improvement
Access to market
Access to credit
Overall policy tools

Crosscutting

Women

Youth

Nutrition

Climate Change

Food system

Contact (implementing partner)

CARD
Joseph Coompson

Project Notes

Luombwa scheme