Climate Resilience and Agriculture Development Project

The development objective of the Climate Resilience and Agriculture Development Project for Albania is to increase competitiveness and climate resilience of priority agri-food value chains. The project comprises of three components. The first component, promoting climate smart agriculture and access to markets aims at supporting resilient and climate smart agriculture, productivity and quality improvements and improving market access through investments to shorten value chains, strengthen resilience of food supply, introduce digital technology, and develop a modern and reliable irrigation delivery services and drainage network for high-value agricultural production. It consists of following sub-components: (i) promoting climate smart and resilient value chains; and (ii) modernizing selected irrigation and drainage schemes for high-value agricultural production. The second component, enhancing compliance with food safety and quality standards aim at addressing weak compliance and control mechanisms related to food safety, veterinary, and phytosanitary standards which currently impede competitiveness and create market access inequalities both in the local and export markets. The third component, strengthening evidence-based analysis capacity of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and municipalities aims at establishing a sustainable and effective monitoring and evaluation (M and E) system for agricultural and rural development policy in Albania.