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The UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Government of the State of Maranhão signed a financing agreement today for the implementation of the Amazon Sustainable Management Project (PAGES). Implemented in Brazil’s state with the highest poverty and food insecurity rates, the project will address the entrenched environmental degradation of the Amazonian forest.The total project cost is US$ 37 million, of which IFAD will contribute with a grant of US$ 17 million, provided by the Government of Germany through the Enhanced Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP+). The Government of Maranhão will contribute $ 16 million, and the beneficiaries will provide in-kind contributions of $ 4 million.
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Monday, December 16, 2019
GBV elimination: Centre LSD commences project on male engagement - NaijaAgroNet
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Concerned over the lack of male engagement in reducing Gender-Based Violence (GBV), the African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development
(Centre LSD), has kicked-off the implementation of a male engagement project on Sexual, Reproductive Health
and Rights (SRHR), as well as Harmful Traditional Practices in Nigeria, reports NaijaAgroNet.
The programme, NaijaAgroNet gathered is an
initiative of the European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN) under the
Spotlight Initiative, envisioned a Nigeria where all women and girls,
particularly the most vulnerable, live a life free from violence and harmful
practices, by addressing the linkages between sexual and gender-based violence
and harmful practices with related aspects of sexual and reproductive health
and rights as a cross-cutting theme.
The project lead, Mr. Vincent Dania, Centre LSD, told NaijaAgroNet
the focus will be on prevention efforts particularly addressing the root causes
of gender-based violence and harmful practices (child marriage and Female
Genital Mutilation) against women and girls; and ensuring access to inclusive,
timely, and quality services for victims and survivors with a vibrant CSOs and
women movement.
“The Centre will work with other implementing partners to achieve
the goal of the Spotlight Initiative in Nigeria,” he said.
The Centre’s role in the project, he said, would include “Mobilizing
men and setting up platforms of men against Sexual & Gender-Based Violence
at the community level; strengthening the capacities of identified traditional,
religious leaders and media. It will also identify and train male
advocates and champions at different levels (community, state and national) to
continuously speak up against Violence Against Women & Girls (VAWG);
engaging male opinion leaders to secure support for VAWG, gender equality and
the empowerment of women; and train women and girls’ rights defenders in
relevant skills to better engage with religious leaders to end VAWG and HP.”
Further, NaijaAgroNet gathered the Centre
LSD will be implementing the project in two states, namely Lagos and Cross
River.
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Monday, October 16, 2017
Dangote rice targets 1m tonnes in 2018, launches youth graduates farm project @Kogi
A multi-million Naira Youth Farming Initiative that will
engage teeming unemployed Nigerian graduates in rice farming has been launched
by the Dangote Rice Limited in Kogi State, reports NaijaAgroNet.
This is coming as the company says its preparing to hit the
market with One million metric tons of Dangote rice in 2018.
A press statement made available to NaijaAgroNet by Francis Awowole-Browne, informed
that the Dangote Youth Rice Farm project, mainly an out-grower scheme
for youths only was flagged off at the Lower Niger River Basin Authority,
Kampe, Ejiba in Yagba West local government area of the state where youth have
embarked on rice cultivation over 100 hectares of land.
He quoted Group Executive Director at Dangote, Mr. Devakumar
Edwin, as saying that the rice farm project, was preceded by a special training
for the youth farmers on the dynamics of the rice farming, will see the youths
cultivating the rice paddy on a 100 hectares of land, which will then be bought
over by the company for processing.
Under the scheme, he explained that the Dangote Rice Company
would provide the seedling, anti-pest-chemicals, and fertilizers while the
Basing Authority provided the land for the young farmers.
Mr. Edwin explained that the project is a new dimension to
the efforts by the pan-African conglomerate, the Dangote Group, at ensuring
food security and creating job opportunities in Nigeria especially for the
youths saying this Initiative is in line with the vision and commitment of
Dangote Industries Limited to create a new generation of agri-preneur that will
revolutionize the Nigerian agricultural sector.
“We believe skill, knowledge, enabling environment,
collaboration and linkages along the value chain are driving forces for
economic empowerment and social development in line with the Federal Government
policies. This project will address the skills gap in local rice production
among unemployed youths by providing technical, organisational and financial
requirements.”
He said it would also enhance domestic rice production to
cover the large gap between demand and domestic production and to increase
self-sufficiency of Nigeria and substitute imported rice by quality Nigerian
rice brands.
Mr. Edwin disclosed that most modern rice mills in Nigeria
presently operate at not more than 20% capacity utilization due mainly to lack
of good quality paddy and that Dangote Rice aimed to change this situation
developing and adapting out-grower schemes. According to him, the Dangote Rice
Company plans to set up a 150,000 metric tons integrated rice mill and sale one
million mt of parboiled rice by 2018.
The Dangote Group boss stated that the decision of the
management to start the project was driven by two factors, one of which is the
need for youth employment through empowerment to go into agriculture. “The
youths are more vulnerable to crimes and other social vices when they have
nothing to engage them and this in turn affect the nation negatively.
“The second factor is the need to strengthen the on-going
efforts at producing rice for self-sufficiency so that we can save foreign
exchange. By the time we will be doing one million metric tons of rice next
year, no less than three million jobs would been created along the value
chain.”
Mr. Edwin said the Kogi pilot project will cover four season
of two years and will be launched in four other states soon.
In his own remark, the Managing Director of Dangote Rice,
Mr. Robert Coleman urged the youth farmers to concentrate on the project and
pay attention to details so that they would come out with good paddy yield.
He congratulated the farmers for the decision to partner
with Dangote Rice noting that they have a solid source of livelihood for
themselves and members of their families if they give their all for the success
of the scheme.
The Coordinator of the youth farmers, Umar Etudaye thanked
the management of Dangote Rice for believing in them and engaging them for the
project. He promised that they would deliver on the mandate given to them on
the project.
He stated that the scheme is a practical step towards nation
building because it’s the youths, who constitute 40 per cent of the population,
would build the nation and only the youths that are empowered and gainfully
employed could do that.
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Tuesday, August 29, 2017
New IFAD-supported project boosts rural economy, livelihoods
A
total of 60,000 Angolan rural households in Cuanza Sul and Huila provinces will
benefit from a financial agreement, signed today between the International Fund
for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Angola, that will generate revenue and
boost food and nutrition security of poorer households. The project will
increase smallholder agriculture productivity, production and marketing for
selected crops and will place a special focus on women and young people.
The
financing agreement for the Smallholder Agriculture Development and
Commercialization Project in Cuanza Sul and Huila Provinces (SADCP-CH) was
signed in Rome by Gilbert F. Houngbo, President of IFAD, and Florêncio Mariano
da Conceição de Almeida, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Angola to
IFAD.
The
total cost of the project is US$38.2 million, including a $28.8 million loan
from IFAD. The project will be cofinanced by the Government of Angola ($8.2
million) and by the beneficiaries themselves ($1.1 million).
During
Angola’s 26-year civil war, the agriculture sector was devastated and
productivity plummeted. Due to instability, many smallholder farmers reverted
to subsistence farming to feed their families. What minimal surplus they had,
they sold in local markets. SADCP-CH will help subsistence farmers increase
agricultural production and productivity through improved agricultural
practices and technologies. Farmer field schools will strengthen the skills of
smallholders and their organizations.
With
most agriculture in the region dependent on rainfall, SADCP-CH will also
enhance access to water and more efficient water use. It will develop
small-scale irrigation systems, focussing on the rehabilitation of existing
schemes that cover about 500 hectares in the project area.
Support
will be provided to farmers’ organizations to promote climate resilient
agriculture for key priority food and horticultural crops, while working to
promote investments aimed at reducing post-harvest losses and strengthening
market linkages.
For
example, the project will pilot and promote low-cost technologies for storage
and processing of perishable products. This will help farmers capitalize on the
market, rather than being subject to opportunistic traders that are well aware
of product perishability. The expectation is that the increased demand for
goods and services in rural areas will spur the creation of non-farm jobs, in
particular for the young people.
Since
1991, IFAD has financed six rural development programmes and projects in Angola
for a total cost of $139.7 million, with an IFAD investment of $76.0 million
directly benefiting 261,600 rural households.
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Dickson commends FG’s water project in Ogbia
The governor of Bayelsa State, Hon
Seriake Dickson has commended the efforts of the Federal Government leading to
recent completion and commissioning of the Central Ogbia Water Project at
Otuoke in Ogbia Local Government Area of the state, reports NaijaAgroNet.
Governor Dickson, who gave this
commendation when the Minister of Water Resources, Engr Suleiman Adamu, paid
him a courtesy call in Yenagoa, expressed delight that the project would meet
the water needs of several communities in the area.
He stressed the need for those, who
occupy positions of public trust to show true commitment to the completion of
projects they inherited, pointing out that, the infrastructural deficit
confronting most states and the Federal Government is as a result of reckless
abandonment of government policies and programmes.
"This is the type of
cross-party collaboration and continuity that should inform government
policies. So, I like to thank the Federal Government for establishing this
water project and the present administration for seeing to its completion for
the beneficiary communities and people of this state to benefit," he said.
Highlighting the importance of water
for both domestic and industrial use, the Governor said his administration
would spare no effort to ensure the provision of potable water for the people
of the state, despite the environmental challenges posed by the terrain and oil
spills over the years.
He, however, called for more
collaboration between the state, Federal Government and other development
partners within and outside the country, noting that, the magnitude of work and
financial resources required to meet the potable water requirements of the
people was beyond the reach of the state government.
Governor Dickson, who also solicited
the support of international organisations with the requisite financial and
technical expertise, appealed to the National Assembly and the executive arm to
carry Bayelsa along in their annual budgetary allocations for water projects
across the country.
"If you look at Bayelsa from
the outside, you will think there is so much water to drink. But the sort of
water we have here, has its challenges because of the prolonged environmental
issues that have arisen as a result of our being host to most of the oil
producing companies.
"In the past four years that
we've been here, we've tried a number of initiatives in terms of getting the
right technology. So, we want to work closely with the Federal Government, its
agencies and all partners across the globe, who have the capacity both in terms
of financial muscle and technical expertise to ensure that we make potable
water available to our people," Dickson submitted.
In his remarks earlier, the Minister
of Water Resources, Engr Suleiman Adamu, who was accompanied on the visit by
the House Committee Chairman on Water Resources, Hon Aliyu Pategi, the Managing
Director, Niger Delta Basin Development Authority, Hon. Onoye Beredugo among
other top officials said his team was in the state to commission the Central
Ogbia Water Project, which was initiated by the former President Goodluck Jonathan
administration.
He noted that, the project would be
handed over to the state after the commissioning for beneficiary communities to
use.
Pix: Governor of Bayelsa State, Hon. Seriake Dickson
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