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Smallholder
Services Rehabilitation Project
The overall objective of this project was
to help the cooperative movement improve services to its existing
membership of small-scale farmers, and also to reach the poorest farmers
and those living in remote areas. The project’s scope was national,
but some activities focused on specific areas that are poor and drought-prone
and suffer persistent food supply problems. In areas of Eastern and
Luapula provinces, for example, when the stable crop of cassava was
devastated by pests the population was left in extreme poverty. The
goals of the project were to:
- expand and improve
the agricultural services network to meet the needs of small-scale
farmers more effectively
- increase the availability
of agricultural supplies to small-scale farmers
- help marginal and
subsistence farmers enter the market economy and improve their productivity,
incomes, food security and standard of living
- tap underutilized resources in the small-scale farming sector
and reduce national dependence on food imports
Source: IFAD
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| Contact information |
Ms Carla Ferreira
Country programme manager
IFAD
Via Paolo di Dono, 44
00142 Rome, Italy
Tel: +39 0654592722
Fax: +39 0654593722
c.ferreira@ifad.org |
| Facts and figures |
Total cost: US$25.7 million
IFAD loan: US$11.5 million
SPA loan: US$9.0 million
Cofinancing: Organization
of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Fund (US$3.5 million)
Duration:
1988 -1995
Geographical
area: nationwide
Directly benefiting:
27,000 households
Status: closed |
| Partners |
- International Development Association (World Bank
Group)
- Ministry of Marketing and Cooperatives
- Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
(OPEC)
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