Interim Evaluation

Despite its agricultural potential at the beginning of the 1990s, the forest region of Guinea had a food production deficit. Nationalisation policies between 1958 and 1984 had resulted in individualist, predatory subsistence farming.

Later, with liberalisation, IFAD sought to provide sustainable technical and organisational solutions to rural development problems. In seven years, the project achieved an increase in agricultural production although expected results in terms of environmental conservation and reaching the most disadvantaged were disappointing. The second phase of the project, beyond ensuring the participation of the poorest, needs to guarantee that long-term benefits will actually reach all intended target groups.