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Closed IFAD operations in China

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Southwest Anhui Integrated Agricultural Development Project
Total cost: US$55.7 million
IFAD loan amount: US$26.5 million
Duration: 1997-2004
Directly benefiting: 98,400 households
Type: agricultural development

Northeast Sichuan and Qinghai/Haidong Integrated Agricultural Development Project
Total cost: US$108.1 million
IFAD loan amount: US$27.9 million
Duration: 1997-2002
Directly benefiting: 370,000 households
Type: agricultural development

Some 370,000 households of poor farmers benefited from this project to improve agricultural production and increase their incomes.

Jiangxi/Ganzhou Integrated Agricultural Development Project
Total cost: US$48.8 million
IFAD loan amount: US$23.8 million
Duration: 1996-2001
Directly benefiting: 160,000 households
Type: agricultural development

In this project, IFAD supported efforts to help poor farmers improve their incomes by increasing production.

Qinghai/Hainan Prefecture Agricultural Development Project
Total cost: US$40.3 million
IFAD loan amount: US$20.0 million
Duration: 1995-2000
Directly benefiting: 45,000 households
Type: agricultural development

The project’s aim was to improve sustainable livestock and agricultural production, increasing the incomes of poor herders and farmers. It supported improved rangeland management by forming 1,290 community-based grassland management units.

Yunnan-Simao Minorities Area Agricultural Development Project
Total cost: US$50.7 million
IFAD loan amount: US$25.8 million
Duration: 1993-2000
Directly benefiting: 70,000 households
Type: rural credit

By supporting better access to credit facilities, the project enabled ethnic minorities to improve their livelihoods.

Jilin Low-Lying Land Development Project
Total cost: US$55.2 million
IFAD loan amount: US$27.6 million
Duration: 1992-1997
Directly benefiting: 73,500 households
Type: rural development

More than 73,000 households in rural lowland areas benefited from the project, which enabled them to improve their livelihoods and living conditions.

Shanxi Integrated Agricultural Development Project
Total cost: US$50.6 million
IFAD loan amount: US$25.3 million
Duration: 1991-1997
Directly benefiting: 130,000 households
Type: agricultural development

Through an integrated development approach, the project enabled poor farmers improve their incomes through increased production.

Shandong/Yantai Agricultural Development Project
Total cost: US$42.9 million
IFAD loan amount: US$21.5 million
Duration: 1990-1996
Directly benefiting: 160,000 households
Type: agricultural development

By supporting agricultural development, IFAD funds contributed to the improvement of local farmers’ livelihoods, benefiting some 160,000 rural households.

Sichuan Livestock Development Project
Total cost: US$34.6 million
IFAD loan amount: US$17.3 million
Duration: 1989-1994
Directly benefiting: 50,000 households
Type: livestock development

The project supported improvements in raising livestock that led to an increase in herders’ incomes, benefiting some 50,000 households.

Guangdong Integrated Freshwater Fish Farming Project
Total cost: US$31.4 million
IFAD loan amount: US$12.0 million
Duration: 1987-1992
Directly benefiting: 3,000 households
Type: fisheries development

By supporting the development of freshwater fisheries, the project enabled poor rural households to improve their livelihoods.

Rural Credit Project
Total cost: US$71.4 million
IFAD loan amount: US$25.0 million
Duration: 1985-1988
Directly benefiting: 45,000 households
Type: rural credit

The project supported efforts to provide poor people living in rural areas with better access to credit. This enabled them to improve their livelihoods and living conditions, with impact on a total of 45,000 households.

Hebei Agricultural Development Project
Total cost: US$51.5 million
IFAD loan amount: US$25.0 million
Duration: 1983-1988
Directly benefiting: 35,200 households
Type: agricultural development

This early IFAD-funded project supported agricultural development and enabled poor farmers to improve their livelihoods.

Northern Pasture and Livestock Development Project
Total cost: US$112.3 million
IFAD loan amount: US$35.0 million
Duration: 1981-1988
Directly benefiting: 40,500 households
Type: livestock development

To reduce poverty among poor herders and their households, this first IFAD-funded project in China supported rehabilitation of pasture land and improvement of livestock.

Source: IFAD

IFAD closed operations
Statistics

Projects: 21

Total cost:
US$1,392.5 million

Total loan amount:
US$528.2 million

Directly benefiting:
3,216,000 households

Contact information
Mr Thomas Rath
Country programme manager
IFAD
Via Paolo Di Dono, 44
00142 Rome, Italy
Tel: +39 0654592069
Fax: +39 0654593069
t.rath@ifad.org