Agricultural Competitiveness and Diversification Project

The project aims at fostering improvements in the performances of supply chains for a range of agricultural and livestock products, for which Mali has strong comparative advantage The proposed investment is expected to reinforce the competitiveness of both traditional (cotton, rice) and non-traditional (fruit, horticulture products, oil seeds, arabic gum, cashews, etc.) agricultural crops through targeted investment to remove critical constraints, improve productivity and efficiency and build organizational and institutional capacities, both private and public, along the supply chains. In the long run, the project should contribute to increasing and diversifying rural household incomes and economic opportunities. It supports the development of a vibrant and diversified commercial agriculture as a means to move away from subsistence agriculture, which is often synonymous to poverty for a majority of rural households.