Ghana - Savannah Zone Agricultural Productivity Improvement Project (SAPIP)

The Savannah Zone Agricultural Productivity Improvement Project (SAZAPIP) aims at transforming agricultural value chains for food and nutrition security, job and wealth creation in the Northern Savannah Zone of Ghana. This project will increase farmers’ food and nutrition security and incomes through increased agricultural productivity and diversification; and enhance the creation and strengthening of agribusinesses to increase incomes of actors along selected value chains on a sustainable basis. It has been designed within the context of the Ghana Shared Growth and Development Agenda II (GSGDA II). The Savannah Zone holds major agricultural promise that when harnessed will transform the lives of the zone's inhabitants quite significantly, yet the zone constitutes the poorest part of the country with a poverty rate of over 40%, which is about the double of the national average. The zone is characterized with relatively more challenging agro-ecological conditions, low socio-economic indicators and historical deficit in public investments in infrastructure and services. The SAZAPIP will be implemented over a five-year period (2018 – 2023) at a total cost of UA 40.38 million. The project has four components: (i) Crop Productivity Improvement; (ii) Value Chains & Agribusiness Development; (ii) Infrastructure Development; and (iii) Project Coordination, Management, Monitoring and Evaluation.