Smallholder Agriculture Development Project
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Smallholder Agriculture Development Project
The project area covers four of Lesotho’s 10 districts, located along the South African border.
The project will support smallholder farmers to exploit opportunities to increase their productivity and diversify into market-oriented agriculture.
The project will focus on:
- increasing agricultural market opportunities
- increasing market-oriented smallholder production
- identifying commercially viable activities that can be replicated and successfully scaled up
- project management.

President's reports
President's reports
Project design reports
Supervision and implementation support documents
Supervision and implementation support documents
Supervision mission - March 2018
Year: 2018
Environmental and social impact assessment
Final environmental and social management framework
Interim (mid-term) review report
Resettlement action framework
PCR digest
Special study
Project list
Audit and Financial Statements
Audit and Financial Statements
Project completion report
Project completion report
Co-financiers
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Lesotho and IFAD join to improve the livelihoods of the most vulnerable small-scale farmers
September 2020
- NEWS
160,000 poor rural households in Lesotho will benefit from new financing for a project that will boost food security and nutrition, mitigate the impact of climate change and strengthen livelihoods for greater income.
A day in the life of a vegetable farmer in Lesotho
September 2019
- VIDEO
Thabo Lefatle owns and runs a small vegetable farm in Lesotho’s Mafeteng district, south of the capital Maseru. He is one of 55,000 smallholder farmers in Lesotho who applied for and won public grants.