Smallholder Commercilization and Agribusiness Development Project (SCADeP)

To improve agricultural productivity and access to markets along the value chains of rice, cocoa, palm oil and poultry

COUNTRY/REC Sierra Leone

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD February 2016 - June 2023

PROJECT SITE Whole country

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 Ministry of agriculture and forestry (MAF)
2 World Bank

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 40,000,000.00 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 40,000,000.00 - 0
Project Goal

To improve agricultural productivity and access to markets along the value chains of rice, cocoa, palm oil and poultry

Project Objectives

To promote smallholder commercialization

Project Outputs

It is expected that productivity on this commodity would have increased by 69% while the Percentage increase in quantity and value of commodity sales from producer organizations would have increased by 10 %

Project activities

Support for agribusiness-farmer linkages and small and medium scale enterprises along selected agricultural value chains

Market access improvement

Capacity-building support for state and non-state institutions and producer organizations

Project coordination, monitoring and evaluation

Beneficiaries

Direct Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number
1 Smallholder 120000
2 Female 48000
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