Agricultural and Livestock Transformation Project

The development objective of Agricultural and Livestock Transformation Project for Niger is to increase agriculture productivity and access to markets for small and medium farmers and agri-food small and medium enterprises in the participating project regions. This project has four components: 1) Improving the quality of agriculture support services and policies, aims to increase the productivity of agriculture for both crop production and sedentary livestock systems, including aquaculture and fisheries, and to improve the safety of food products, by strengthening agriculture support services and policies; 2) Increasing investments in agricultural production, processing, and market access, aims to increase private investments by the various players in the agri-food sector in agricultural production, processing and market access; 3) Project coordination; 4) Contingent Emergency Response. The project will implement soil conservation, water retention,
and erosion mitigation activities with small retentions infrastructure made from stacked stone and terracing of basin slopes.