Investing in rural people in Guinea

IFAD began operations in Guinea in 1980. Since then, it has invested US$244 million in 14 projects for a total cost of US$469.6 million, directly benefiting 651,450 rural households.

In the period since 2000, the socio-economic and political situation in Guinea has degenerated, and poor people have been particularly affected by the downturn. IFAD’s operations have succeeded in increasing incomes and improving food security and living conditions for participants in its programmes and projects.

IFAD’s strategic objectives for Guinea are:

• Production of family farmers is increased sustainably.
• Producers hold more equitable market conditions.
• Organizations (farmer associations, cooperatives and federations) and microfinance institutions providing services to farmers are professional and capable of responding to the demands of their members.

IFAD’s operations in Guinea aim to contribute in a cross-cutting way to:

• strengthen environmental sustainability and increase the resilience to climate change of the economic activities of rural people
• focus activities on young people, and more particularly on young women, especially by facilitating their access to the labour market, fostering entrepreneurship and providing capacity-building
• systematically integrate aspects of food and nutrition security (e.g. nutrition education, product promotion/high nutritional value chains, processing of high nutritional value products/meals) into the component activities of the operations.