This project will help small-scale producers in three of the poorest departments of Nicaragua improve their income and employment opportunities. It will focus on landless rural people and small-scale coffee, dairy and grain producers affected by droughts, floods and other natural disasters.

Specifically, the project will help small-scale producers:

• identify leading participants in selected value chains and develop alliances with them

• improve production, processing, entrepreneurial activities and management through better access to financial and non-financial services  

• develop their capacities and strengthen their social and economic organizations

• improve the rural road network

IFAD will provide additional support to this project through a US$3.9 million grant approved under the debt sustainability framework (DSF).

Source: IFAD