Support to Agricultural Production and Marketing Project - Western Extension (PROPACOM WNW)

General

The project will complements the ongoing PROPACOM project in the centre-north, north and northeast of the country. It aims to reduce poverty and stimulate economic growth in the regions of Bafing, Béré, Folon, Kabadougou, Tonpki and Worodougou. The project will focus on increasing agricultural productivity of rice, maize, cassava and the vegetable value chain. It will improve food security by increasing 30,000 smallholder farmers households' access to services, rural financial services, technologies and markets. The project targets particularly women and young people who are involved in food production, processing and marketing in an effort to improve their incomes and livelihoods. On land and natural resource governance, the project aims to conduct population awareness campaigns in the local language for land registration. Further it will fund the cost of the bundle (document to be filled for requesting registration) for owners of lowlands and it will establish a device for land ownership clarification to rehabilitate and develop 2,300 ha of lowland.