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Project General Description

The Government of Zambia has prioritised agriculture among the key sectors that would spur economic growth and reduce poverty. To this effect, a National Agricultural and Cooperative Policy was enacted in 2004 calling for the development of an efficient, competitive and sustainable agriculture sector through strengthening farmer organisations and development of infrastructure in high potential agricultural areas. The Government intends to provide support to link farmers and producers to markets as a sustainable way of reducing poverty by improving their incomes, increasing agricultural production and sustaining economic growth.

Project Objectives

In line with this policy the Government, with support from the African Development Bank (AfDB), prepared and submitted a funding proposal to the Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme (GAFSP). The GAFSP agreed to fund this project whose overall objective is to reduce poverty by ensuring food, income and nutritional security among the smallholder farm households in six (6) targeted districts. The specific objectives are mainly to (i) increase agricultural production by 30% among the smallholder farmers; (ii) increase market engagement to 50% of production among smallholder farmers; (iii) enhance institutional capacity of key sector players; and (iv) reduce chronic malnutrition from 45% to 30% among under-five children in the target area.

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