Seed Systems & Climate-Resilient Value Chains (Catalytic Seed Project)

To build responsive, sustainable, and resilient maize and rice seed systems from research to markets. The project boosts local seed companies via the Program for Africa's Seed Systems (PASS) to produce certified, high-yielding, and climate-smart varieties.. Cost: Supported by co-investments from AGRA, the UNDP, and international facility grants (e.g., FAPA providing a sub-grant of $1,000,000 USD for seed company development services across partner countries).

COUNTRY/REC Burkina Faso

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD

PROJECT SITE Cascades, Hauts Bassins, Centre Est, Centre Ouest

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 AGRA
2 UNDP
3 FAPA

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 0 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 0 - 0
Project Goal

To build responsive, sustainable, and resilient maize and rice seed systems from research to markets. The project boosts local seed companies via the Program for Africa's Seed Systems (PASS) to produce certified, high-yielding, and climate-smart varieties.. Cost: Supported by co-investments from AGRA, the UNDP, and international facility grants (e.g., FAPA providing a sub-grant of $1,000,000 USD for seed company development services across partner countries).

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