Commercial Agriculture and Value Chain Management Project

To improve productivity and access to market of targeted agricultural commodities for smallholders in the project area

COUNTRY/REC Gambia

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD January 2014 - November 2019

PROJECT SITE Central River Region North, Central River Region South, Lower River Region, West Coast Region

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 Ministry of Agriculture
2 World Bank 19,270,000.00

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 19,270,000.00 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 19,270,000.00 - 0
Project Goal

To improve productivity and access to market of targeted agricultural commodities for smallholders in the project area

Project Objectives

To enhance the resilience of agricultural production systems to climate change-induced weather shocks

To facilitate processing and marketing of agricultural products

To more effectively operate in a market-driven environment

To improve the governance of Gambia National Agricultural Investment Plan

Project Outputs

2,500 ha of land rehabilitated

40,000 farmers reached (70% women)

500 young entrepreneurs trained

3 large scale processing plants established

capacity of stakeholders enhanced

Project activities

Support for development of irrigation and key productive infrastructure

Support to value chain management

Project administration and institution building

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