Commercial Agriculture and Value Chain Management Project

The Development Objective for the Commercial Agriculture and Value Chain Management Project (GCAV) is to improve productivity and access to market of targeted agricultural commodities for smallholders in the Project Area. To achieve this objective the project will support targeted investments to remove critical constraints, improve productivity and build organizational and institutional capacities, both private and public, along the value chains of the targeted commodities. In particular, the project will: (i) rehabilitate irrigation infrastructure to enhance the resilience of agricultural production systems to climate change-induced weather shocks inselected areas; (ii) rehabilitate/build commercial post-harvest infrastructure to facilitate processing and marketing of agricultural products (iii) support strengthening of the technical, institutional, managerial and marketing capacities of smallholders and their organizations, as well as other stakeholders involved in agricultural production and value chains, to more effectively operate ina market-driven environment; and (iv) provide institutional-strengthening support to improve the governance of Gambia National Agricultural Investment Plan. The selected value chains are rice and horticulture (vegetables), for which accessible markets exist andproductivity gains are achievable through adoption of proven technologies.