Ghana Agricultural Sector Investment Program (GASIP)

To contribute to sustainable poverty reduction in rural areas of Ghana

COUNTRY/REC Ghana

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD May 2015 - June 2021

PROJECT SITE Whole country

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA)
2 IFAD 36,600,000.00
3 10,000,000.00

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 10,000,000.00 0 0
Loan 36,600,000.00 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 46,600,000.00 - 0
Project Goal

To contribute to sustainable poverty reduction in rural areas of Ghana

Project Objectives

To enhance the profitability and climate change resilience of agribusinesses and smallholders

Project activities

Value Chain of various crops developed

The implementation of the agribusiness agreements by strengthening the FBOs

Providing matching grants to support crop production activities

Strengthening value chain infrastructure

The adoption of climate change resilient practices

Beneficiaries

Direct Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number
1 Farmers 86400
2 FBO 4000
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

PHOTOS
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Contact (implementing agency)

CARD