SPECIAL FEATURE
TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE AND SECURE FUTURE FOR AFRICAN AGRICULTURE
• In the DR Congo the “Inclusive and Resilient Development Programme” is enhancing food security, nutrition and food crisis resilience by improving in a sustainable way the productivity and competitiveness of value chains for subsistence and cash crops as well as strengthening incomes of family farms.
• A project for the sustainable transformation towards agricultural resilience in Upper Egypt is improving the living standards of smallholder farmers and vulnerable women and youth. The program includes the strengthening of rural institutions, enterprises and markets and the support of micro-enterprises and better farming practices. The program is expected to benefit around 1.2 million people.
• In Niger the “Strengthening Resilience of Rural Communities to Food and Nutrition Insecurity Programme” is enhancing food security for more than 1.4 million people by constructing and rehabilitating farming facilities, supporting better rural marketplace infrastructure and 7,300 rural youth enterprises, as well as providing technical training and institution building.
• The “Agricultural Value Chain Development Project” in Sierra Leone aims to improve the livelihoods, food security and climate change resilience of rural farming households. The program supports value chains from seed to marketing and covers 16 districts vulnerable to recurring food crises.
Harvesting peaches in Ilyosha village, Egypt
A woman cleans carrots during the harvest in El Shohada village, Egypt
A family sorts beans, selecting the best and discarding any diseased ones, DR Congo
A cocoa farmer inspecting plants in the Tegloma cocoa cooperative nursery, Sierra Leone
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PHOTO: IFAD/Baudoin Mouanda
PHOTO: IFAD/Marco Salustro
PHOTO: IFAD/Sarah Morgan
PHOTO: IFAD/Marco Salustro
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