BAIXO Limpopo Irrigation and Climate Resilience Project

Improving national food security and reduced poverty

COUNTRY/REC Mozambique

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD June 2013 - June 2019

PROJECT SITE Xai-Xai

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 Ministry of Agriculture
2 AfDB 25,000,000.00
3 SCF-PPCR 15,750,000.00
4 Government of Mozambique 2,140,000.00

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 3,450,000.00 0 0
Loan 37,300,000.00 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 2,140,000.00 0 0
Total 42,890,000.00 - 0
Project Goal

Improving national food security and reduced poverty

Project Objectives

Rice and vegetables production increased

Incomes of smallholder farmers and rural entrepreneurs raised

Project Outputs

Rice and vegetables production increased through infrastructure development and capacity building

Incomes of smallholder farmers and rural entrepreneurs raised

Project activities

Infrastructure Development

Capacity Building and Farm Diversification

Project Management

Beneficiaries

Direct Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number
1 Farm families 8210
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

Project Notes

Xai-Xai irrigation scheme