Goal:
To improve
Food Security,
Nutrition
and
Small Holder Farmers'
Resilience to Climate Change
in The Gambia
Goal:
To improve
Food Security,
Nutrition
and
Small Holder Farmers'
Resilience to Climate Change
in The Gambia
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Goal:
To improve
Food Security,
Nutrition
and
Small Holder Farmers'
Resilience to Climate Change
in The Gambia
Project Development Objective:
To increase agricultural
productivity and access to
markets for enhanced food
security and nutrition, and
resilience of family farms
and farmer organizations.
Project Development Objective:
To increase agricultural productivity
and access to markets
for enhanced food security and
nutrition, and resilience of family farms
and farmer organizations.
Food Security, Nutrition
and Small Holder Farmers'
Resilience to Climate Change
in The Gambia
Develop and upgrade
Market-oriented
vegetable gardens
Develop and upgrade
Market-oriented
vegetable gardens
Provision of cold storage
facilty for communities
Upgrade causeways to
access rice-growing
swampy areas
Upgrade causeways to
access rice-growing
swampy areas
Upgrade causeways to
access rice-growing
swampy areas
Develop new
runoff control dykes
Develop new
runoff control dykes
Develop new
runoff control dykes
Consolidate existing poorly
performing tidal irrigation and
develop new tidal irrigation on
existing agricultural lands
Consolidate existing poorly
performing tidal irrigation and
develop new tidal irrigation on
existing agricultural lands
Consolidate existing poorly
performing tidal irrigation and
develop new tidal irrigation on
existing agricultural lands
Develop and manage
infrastructure
for rice cultivation
Develop and manage infrastructure
for rice cultivation
Develop and manage infrastructure
for rice cultivation
ROOTS will proactively facilitate
access to project activities for
women and youth
ROOTS will proactively facilitate
access to project activities for
women and youth
ROOTS will proactively facilitate
access to project activities for
women and youth
Welcome Remarks
I have the pleasure to welcome you to the ROOTS Project website. The website is intended to provide up to date information about what ROOTS is all about, how it is designed and implemented, what are the successes and challenges, and most importantly how can beneficiaries access support in line with the Project design and objectives.
ROOTS was launched on 09 February 2021 by His Excellency President Adama Barrow, which underscores the national significance of the Project. Our development objective is fully aligned with the national goals of the country, specifically the National Development Plan (NDP), Gambia National Agricultural Investment Plan (GNAIP), and The Gambia National Climate Change Policy (2016 – 2025). ROOTS aims to increase agricultural productivity and access to markets for enhanced food security and nutrition, and resilience of family farms and farmer organizations At international level, ROOTS is in line with the African Union’s Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), as well as the Agenda 2063 and 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
We hope you find the website not only useful for your requirements, but also user friendly. We also look forward to your feedback as to how the website can be improved.
Mamour Alieu Jagne
(Project Director)
Brief description of ROOTS:
The Resilience of Organizations for Transformative Smallholder Agriculture Project (ROOTS) was launched on 09 February 2021, with co-funding from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), the GEF Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF), the French Development Agency (AFD), the Government of the Gambia and the Project’s beneficiaries.
The main goal of ROOTS is to improve food security, nutrition and resilience of smallholder farmers to climate change in The Gambia. Its development objective is to increase agricultural productivity and access to markets for enhanced food security and nutrition and for the resilience of family farms and Farming Organizations. To achieve its objectives, the project will support targeted investments in infrastructure and the technical and organizational capacities of farmers’ organizations, particularly youth and women.
Project Components
Component 1: Agricultural productivity and adaptation to climate change
The Project will: (i) consolidate 1,300ha of existing poorly performing tidal irrigation and develop 2,800ha of new tidal irrigation on existing agricultural lands (average size per community land between 25 and 75ha
READ MOREComponent 2: Access to Market
This componet aims to assist FOs supported at the level of production in componet 1 to enter into inclusive commercial partnership with other value-chain actors throught the public private procducers’ partnership and to promote value-addition processing. The project will enhance and scale-up of the agriculture value-chain platform(AVIP) approach to bring together key valuechain stakeholders (producers, processors, traders, transporters) around rice and vegetable value-chains at local level.
READ MOREComponent 3: Institutional Development, Project Management and Citizen Engagement)
The project will support policy dialogue and southsouth and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) activities. It will act as a facilitator and finance 3 policy dialogue round tables and forums involving FOs (NACOFAG, NAWFA), private sector representatives and public sector.
READ MOREThe Project Target in 6 Years
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