Public-Private Partnership for Competitive & Inclusive Rice Value Chain Development: Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) – Rice Chapter

To improve rice farmers’ income and food security/Safety in the Northern, Brong Ahafo, Volta, Ashanti and the Central regions

COUNTRY/REC Ghana

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD January 2018 - December 2021

PROJECT SITE Ahafo, Ashanti, Central, Northern, Volta

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 John Agyekum Kufuor Foundation (JAKF)
2 AGRA

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 2,380,000.00 0 0
Loan 0 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 2,380,000.00 - 0
Project Goal

To improve rice farmers’ income and food security/Safety in the Northern, Brong Ahafo, Volta, Ashanti and the Central regions

Project Objectives

To increase rice productivity for small holder farmers

To strengthen and expand access to output markets

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

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

Project activities

Value chain development

Beneficiaries

Direct Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number
1 Rice farmers 80000
2 Smallholder farmers 2418
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)