Partnership for Inclusive Agriculture Transformation in Africa (PIATA)

To increase incomes and improve the food security of 30 million smallholder farm households

COUNTRY/REC Ghana

PROJECT COVERAGE Multi-country

PROJECT PERIOD March 2017 - December 2023

PROJECT SITE Northern

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1
2 BMGF 11,246,000.00
3 USAID 280,000,000.00
4 AGRA
5 Rockefeller Foundation

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 280,000,000.00 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 11,246,000.00 0 0
Total 291,246,000.00 - 0
Project Goal

To increase incomes and improve the food security of 30 million smallholder farm households

Project Objectives

Increased staple crop productivity

Strengthened and expanded access to national and regional markets

Increased capacity of smallholder farming households and agricultural systems to better prepare for and adapt to shocks and stresses

Strengthened continental, regional, and government multi-sectoral coordination and mutual accountability in the agricultural sector

Project activities

Strengthening the policy environment

Increasing youth and women’s empowerment

Securing public private partnerships and farmer capacity

Beneficiaries

Direct Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number
1 Smallholder farm households 300000
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 agency)

CARD