Feed the Future Ghana Agricultural Development and Value Chain Enhancement Activity (Advance II)

Optimizing business potential for all actors in the maize, rice, and soybean value chains

COUNTRY/REC Ghana

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD January 2014 - December 2020

PROJECT SITE Northern, Upper Esat, Upper West

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 Ministry of Food and Agriculture
2 ACDI/VOCA
3 USAID
4 TechnoServe
5 ACDEP
6 PAB Development Consultants Ltd

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 38,000,000.00 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 38,000,000.00 - 0
Project Goal

Optimizing business potential for all actors in the maize, rice, and soybean value chains

Project Objectives

Enhancing yields

Fostering climate-smart agriculture

Innovative technology solutions

Sustainable relationships

Project activities

Technology and business trainings

Mentorship programs

Demonstrations of good agricultural practices

Beneficiaries

Direct Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number
1 Smallholders whose farms average less than five ha 113000
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

Media

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Contact (implementing agency)

CARD
Emmanuel Dormon