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Sokoto
State Agricultural and Community Development Project
Sokoto
state is particularly subject to environmental degradation. Land,
water and soil fertility have been seriously depleted as a result
of intensive cropping and overgrazing, and droughts have become increasingly
common occurrences in the area. Since most of the rural population
practices subsistence farming, the decline of the resource base brings
chronic food shortages and greater poverty.
The
project goal was to increase the productivity, income and food security
of smallholder farming families by introducing measures to conserve
the environment and improve crop yields. The project targeted farmers
who have less than 2 ha to cultivate, with a special emphasis
on women, households headed by women and landless families. Specific
objectives of the project included:
- halting
resource degradation and, where possible, repairing environmental
damage
- encouraging
the participation of local communities in development programmes
- training
local village communities to manage their own development programmes
- providing
access to credit, agricultural inputs and irrigated land where possible
- evolving a sustainable
project design and management approach combining local participation
and private sector involvement, to be replicated elsewhere in the
country
Source:
IFAD
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| Contact information |
Mr Perin Saint Ange
Country programme manager
IFAD
Via Paolo Di Dono, 44
00142 Rome, Italy
Tel: +39 0654592448
Fax: +39 0654593448
p.saintange@ifad.org |
| Facts and figures |
Total cost: US$17.2 million
IFAD loan: US$9.6 million
Cofinancing:
- European Union (US$2.3 million)
- United Nations Development Programme (US$2.4 million)
Duration: 1994-2001
Geographical
area: Sokoto state
Directly benefiting:
19,600 households
Status: closed |
| Partners |
- Sokoto Agricultural and Rural Development Authority
- Sokoto Environmental Protection Programme
- United Nations Development Programme
- European Union
- International Development Association
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