AfDB , The Gambia sign USD 9 million Agriculture & Food Security Loan Agreement

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group and the Gambia government have  signed a USD 9 million loan agreement to finance an Agriculture Value Chains Project.
The project, which involves the production, processing and storage of or Rice and livestock, will improve food security and create jobs, said the Acting AfDB Vice-President, Sector Operations, Kapil Kapoor, who signed the agreement for the Bank.
Kapoor said the project, which builds on existing agriculture projects in the country, is aligned with the Bank’s High 5 priorities, especially the Feed Africa component. It is among the Bank’s 15 agriculture value-chain engagements across the continent.
He expressed the hope that the government would implement the project as quickly as possible in line with the Bank’s new accelerated projects and programmes delivery approach.
In his response, The Gambia Finance and Economic Affairs Minister, Abdou Kolley, who signed the agreement for his country, thanked the Bank for the support, which, he said, would further strengthen the long relationship between The Gambia and the AfDB.
He said the project will go a long way toward the realization of his county’s food self-sufficiency goal and promised that the government would work hard to reduce bottlenecks which cause delays in the projects implementation.
The Agriculture Value Chains Development Project (AVCDP) was approved in March 2016. It seeks to increase, on a sustainable basis, the income of rural producers, entrepreneurs engaged in the production, processing, storage and marketing of rice and livestock. It will also create shared wealth and jobs.
To be implemented over a period of five-years predominantly in the Upper River (URR) Regions of the country where poverty and food and nutrition insecurity are highly endemic, the project will benefit an estimated 8,300 households comprising 3,320 women and 4,980 men. An additional 4,150 people will benefit indirectly from the project, bringing the overall beneficiaries to some 12,450 households. 

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