Smallholder Agricultural Productivity Enhancement and Commercialization (SAPEC)

To transform Liberia’s agriculture sector

COUNTRY/REC Liberia

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD January 2015 - December 2019

PROJECT SITE Bomi, Gbarpolu, Grand Bassa, Grand Cape Mount, Grand Gedeh, Grand Kru, Margibi, Maryland, Montserrado, River Cess, River Gee, Sinoe

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 Ministry of Agriculture
2 AfDB 6,400,000.00
3 AfricaRice
4 GAFSP 46,500,000.00
5 IITA

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 46,500,000.00 0 0
Loan 6,400,000.00 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 52,900,000.00 - 0
Project Goal

To transform Liberia’s agriculture sector

Project Objectives

To enhance the income of smallholder farmers, particularly women and youth

Project Outputs

Project has reached 145,754 people (43.7 percent women)

SAPEC has met its target of using 500 hectares of developed lowland for vegetable productio

Trained and built the capacities of about 2,800 farmers, NGOs, and project field officers on improved practices in rice, cassava, and vegetable production and on post-harvest/value addition techniques

The project also introduced 14 improved and climate change-resilient rice varieties that mature early (80–100 days)  and that can be grown two times in one rainy season under low altitude conditions

It also completed constructing nine post-harvest facilities, reaching the end-of-project target and directly employing 141 people

Project activities

Agricultural inputs

Land development

Water management

Rice cultivation technique

Post-harvest

Agri-business

Agricultural infrastructure

Beneficiaries

Direct Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number
1 Smallholder farmers and rural entrepreneurs 25000
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 partner)

CARD
Mark Eghan