Enhanced-Smallholder Agribusiness Promotion Programme (E-SAPP)

To increase the incomes and food and nutrition security of rural households involved in market-oriented agriculture

COUNTRY/REC Zambia

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD January 2016 - December 2024

PROJECT SITE Whole country

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 Ministry of Agriculture
2 IFAD 22,260,000.00
3 Private sector 3,460,000.00
4 Platform for Agricultural Risk Management 200,000.00
5 Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute 510,000.00
6 Borrower 2,010,000.00
7 Beneficiaries 1,230,000.00
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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 29,672,000.00 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 29,672,000.00 - 0
Project Goal

To increase the incomes and food and nutrition security of rural households involved in market-oriented agriculture

Project Objectives

To increase the volume and value of agribusiness outputs sold by smallholder producers

Project activities

Enabling environment for agribusiness development

Sustainable agribusiness partnership

Programme implementation

Beneficiaries

Direct Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number
1 Sussitence farmers 40000
2 Economically active 16000
3 Commercially oriented farmers 5000
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
Abla Benhammouche