Commercial Agriculture and Value Chain Management Project

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The development objective of the Commercial Agriculture and Value Chain Management Project for Gambia is to improve productivity and access to market of targeted agricultural commodities for smallholders in the project area. The project has three components. The first component, support for development of irrigation and key productive infrastructure objective is to support the rehabilitation and improvement of tidal irrigation schemes as well as key productive infrastructure to address key constraints in the agricultural production system in order to improve productivity, and to further improve the efficiency of key value chains through improved access to markets. It has following two sub-components: (i) irrigation development and farm production improvement; and (ii) promoting private sector investment in agribusiness and supporting access to key productive equipment. The second component, support to value chain management objective is to develop and strengthen the institutional capacity of farmer-based organizations and professional associations of private sector participants in the value chain to scale up best practices and support farmers' and private sector participants' subprojects to address key constraints and exploit the opportunities to improve the productivity, processing, and marketing of selected commodities; and to strengthen marketing and agribusiness development through engagement with private sector stakeholders. It has following three sub-components: (i) institutional strengthening and value chain coordination; (ii) linking producers to markets; and (iii) improving the agricultural investment climate and service delivery. The third component, project administration and institution building objective is to ensure proper coordination of project implementing agencies and sound management of project activities, while providing support to the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) for the overall coordination of the Gambia National Agricultural Investment Plan (GNAIP). It comprises of following two sub-components: (i) supporting project management, monitoring and evaluation; and (ii) support to ministry of agriculture.