Agriculture Value Chain Development Project (AVCDP)

Enhanced food and nutrition, reduced poverty through increased household income

COUNTRY/REC Gambia

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD January 2017 - December 2020

PROJECT SITE Upper River Region

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 Ministry of Agriculture
2 AfDB 6,201,000.00

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 0 0 0
Loan 6,201,000.00 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 6,201,000.00 - 0
Project Goal

Enhanced food and nutrition, reduced poverty through increased household income

Project Objectives

Improved livelihood of men and women agri-preneursalong rice and livestock value chains

Project Outputs

500ha of irrigation land developed.

Farming equipment provided (17 power tillers, 30 threshers, 3 warehouses with 100MT capacity)

Beneficiaries trained (20 ToT, 300 for GAP, 300 for crop husbadry, 300 for post-harvest, 18 for farm equipment maintenance).

Inputs provided (NPK 100 tons, Urea 50 tons, Seeds 25 tons)

6 dry floors provided.

Project activities

INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT

DEVELOPMENT OF RICE AND LIVESTOCK VALUE CHAINS

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Beneficiaries

Direct Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number
1 Male households 4980
2 Female households 3320
3
Indirect Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number
1 Indirect beneficiaries 4150

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