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West Noubaria Rural Development Project
This seven-year project is working with
small-scale farming households and unemployed youth who were dispossessed
of their statutary tenancies in the oldlands and compensated with
1-ha or 2-ha holdings of reclaimed newlands. The project is helping
them improve their housing and living conditions and adopt desert
farming technologies that have been developed through Egypt’s
agricultural research system. The project helps about 36,000 families
by:
- supporting adoption of better on-farm water management practices
- encouraging development of small and medium enterprises in agricultural
production and marketing
- providing marketing and extension information
- supporting development of a viable financial system and addressing
the immediate need for financing of small and medium enterprises
Source: IFAD
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| Contact information |
Mr Abdelhami Abdouli
Country programme manager
IFAD
Via Paolo di Dono, 44
00142 Rome, Italy
Tel: +39 0654592248
Fax: +39 0654593248
a.abdouli@ifad.org |
| Facts and figures |
Total cost:
US$54.8 million
IFAD loan:
US$18.5 million
Duration:2003-2010
Geographical
area: newland areas
Directly benefiting:
27,000 small-scale farming households
Cofinancing: Italian Debt Swap (IDS) Facility
(US$ 30.13 million) Food
and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (US$ 400,000) through
a technical cooperation programme
Status: ongoing
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