Ecuador - Sustainable Family Farming Modernization Project

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The development objective of the Sustainable Family Farming Modernization Project for Ecuador is to enhance incomes of small and medium sized farm households by supporting more productive and climate-smart use for land and water. The project comprises of three components. The first component, investments for climate-smart sub-projects consists of following two sub-components: (i) productive investments; and (ii) improvement of agricultural, water, and soil management practices. The second component, capacity building for institutional stakeholders and beneficiaries’ organizations will focus on improving and supporting the outcomes of the subproject investments of component one. The third component, project management will support: (i) the functioning of the central unit of the project implementation unit (PIU) to be installed within the under-secretariat of irrigation and drainage in the ministry of agriculture, livestock, aquaculture, and fisheries (MAGAP) in Quito and; (ii) eligible costs and staffing related to the project on seven decentralized offices of MAGAP (Zonales).