Burkina Faso Agriculture Resilience and Competitiveness Project

The development objective of the Agriculture Resilience and Competitiveness Project for Burkina Faso is to increase agricultural productivity and market access for small producers and small and medium agribusiness entrepreneurs for selected value chains in project areas. The project comprises of four components. The first component, enhancing agriculture productivity aims to remove constraints to improved farm productivity, mainly in irrigated production systems. It consists of following sub-components: (i) irrigation infrastructure and land tenure; (ii) agriculture advisory services; and (iii) support to producer organizations and input supply. The second component, improving competitiveness and fostering market access aims to improve competitiveness and foster access to markets through three subcomponents aimed at: (i) capacity building of ministry of agriculture and irrigation development (MAAH) central directorates regarding sanitary and phytosanitary control, development of quality norms and standards, and support to market knowledge; (ii) the provision of marketing facilities; and (iii) construction and rehabilitation of rural road infrastructure. It consists of following sub-components: (i) sanitary and phyto-sanitary control, development of quality norms and standards, and support to market knowledge; (ii) marketing infrastructure; and (iii) rural tracks and roads. The third component, promoting private sector-led agribusiness development aims to enable the country’s private agriculture and agro-processing sector to become more competitive on domestic and external markets, by helping producers, processors, and off-takers and traders develop and finance their investment initiatives. It consists of following sub-components: (i) development of business plans; and (ii) private investment financing. The fourth component will support project coordination, institutional capacity strengthening, and contingent emergency response component (CERC). It consists of...