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Nioumakélé Small Producers Support Project (APPN)
This project was a response to a pressing need for environmental
protection and rehabilitation of the agricultural potential of the
Nioumakélé region on Nzwani Island, the most densely populated region
in the archipelago and one of the poorest.
The activities undertaken by the project, especially introduction
of the technique of planting live fences around plots, which incorporates
livestock farming on intensive development sites and groups together
several farmers and their plots, crop diversification, the use
of improved plant varieties and the establishment of a local milk
processing plant, all continue to this day, ten years after the
project closed, testifying to local communities’ assumption of responsibility
for these activities.
The environmental impact of the project was also spectacular: land
rehabilitation activities and dissemination of the technique of planting
live fences around plots have totally transformed the Nioumakélé
countryside, transforming hundreds of hectares of padza (virtually
sterile land) into arable land.
The National Programme for Sustainable Human Development, now being
formulated in the Comoros, is taking the Nioumakélé experience on
board with a view to adapting it and extending it to other regions
in the archipelago.
Source: IFAD
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| Contact information |
Mr Benoît Thierry
Country programme manager
IFAD
Via Paolo di Dono, 44
00142 Rome, Italy
Tel: +39 0654592234
Fax: +39 0654593234
b.thierry@ifad.org |
| Facts and figures |
Total cost: US$6.8 million
IFAD loan: US$4.0 million
Duration: 1992-1998
Geographical area: Nioumakélé Peninsula on Nzwani Island
Directly benefiting: 2,500 households
Cofinancing:
- Government (US$1.0 million)
- United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP) (US$1.3 million)
Status: closed |
| Partners |
- Ministry of Production, Industry, Rural
Development and the Environment
- United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP)
- United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
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