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Smallholder
Fertilizer Project
The severance of traditional routes to Mozambican
ports, as well as funding difficulties and rising costs, led to the
breakdown of fertilizer supplies for Malawi’s farmers. The lack of
fertilizer became a serious threat to the government’s National Rural
Development Programme, and it put the food security of small-scale
farmers at risk.
The principal objective of
the project was to improve fertilizer delivery to benefit the majority
of Malawi’s small-scale farmers, and it provided a vital contribution
to sustaining fertilizer supplies on a national scale. The project
included:
- a Smallholder Fertilizer
Revolving Fund, to be used exclusively to finance fertilizer imports
for small-scale farmers for the duration of the project
- technical assistance
such as transport management, agricultural planning and pricing
Source: IFAD
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| Contact information |
Ms Miriam Okong'o
Country programme manager
IFAD
Via Paolo di Dono, 44
00142 Rome, Italy
Tel: +39 0654592191
Fax: +39 0654593191
m.okongo@ifad.org |
| Facts and figures |
Total cost: US$30.0 million
IFAD loan: US$9.2 million
IFAD grant: US$1.0 million
Co-financing:
World Bank/International Development Association (US$5.0 million)
Duration: 1983-1988
Geographical
area: nationwide
Directly benefiting:
400,000 households
Status: closed
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| Partners |
- Government of Malawi
- World Bank/International Development Association
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