Sierra Leone Agribusiness Rice Value Chain Support Project (SLARiS)

"To promote economic diversification, food security, sustainable employment opportunities and improved livelihoods"

COUNTRY/REC Sierra Leone

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD August 2019 - August 2024

PROJECT SITE Kambia, Karene, Moyamba

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 Ministry of agriculture and forestry (MAF)
2 Njala University
3 Sierra Leone Seed Certification Agency (SLeSCA)
4 Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute (SLARI)
5 AfDB 11,190,000.00

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 11,190,000.00 0 0
Loan 0 0 0
Governmental 740,000.00 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 11,930,000.00 - 0
Project Goal

"To promote economic diversification, food security, sustainable employment opportunities and improved livelihoods"

Project Objectives

"To promote enhanced production and productivity required"

Project Outputs

Increase rice production and productivity resulting in total annual rice of 1,600,000 metric tons

Increase maize production and productivity resulting in total annual rice;of 150,000 metric tons

Improve market linkage and value chain for rice and maize production

Improve average household income ofbeneficiaries to USD 800

Provide employment for 20,000 farmers and entrepreneurs

Project activities

Support to Enhancement of Agricultural Input Production and Distribution Systems

Support to Agribusiness Development

Institutional capacity development and Project Management

Beneficiaries

Direct Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number
1 Farmers and entrepreneurs 20000
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

Project challenges

Lack of quality inputs (particularly seeds)

Lack of technologies

Lack of finance

Contact (implementing agency)

CARD