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IFAD in Zambia

IFAD has provided loans totalling US$180.1 million to help finance 12 programmes and projects in Zambia.

The first projects were designed to cushion rural poor people from the effects of central planning. Those projects were followed by operations that worked to improve household food security by ensuring support services, access to productive assets and dissemination of technical knowledge. More recently, IFAD’s operations in the country have supported the commercialization of smallholder agriculture and the greater availability of rural financial services for small-scale farmers.

IFAD's strategy in Zambia

IFAD’s current strategy in Zambia aims to raise the incomes, improve the food security and reduce the vulnerability of rural people living in poverty by increasing their access to:

  • Expanded and more competitive markets within more efficient value chains
  • Technologies and services that enhance the productivity, sustainability and resilience of smallholder production
  • Sustainable financial services.


Other priorities are:

  • Ensuring that women are not excluded from profitable production and marketing opportunities, and empowering them as decision-makers at the household, community and project levels
  • Creating economic opportunities for young people in rural areas.


IFAD also works with the Government of Zambia and other stakeholders to identify areas where the private sector, farmers’ organizations and NGOs can improve service delivery for rural people. In addition, the agency pilots new approaches for public-private partnerships and works to strengthen government capacities to carry out new roles in agricultural development.

Country Strategic Opportunities Paper (2011)

Source: IFAD


Statistics
Projects: 12

Total cost:
US$249.9 million

Approved IFAD loan:
US$183.1 million

Directly benefiting:
601,280 households
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Planned project activities
2006 Nobel Peace Prize
Contact information

Fumiko Nakai
Country programme manager
Via Paolo di Dono, 44
Rome, Italy
Work: +39 0654592283
Mobile: +39 0654593283
f.nakai@ifad.org

Dick Siame
Country Programme Officer
Plot 5, Addis Ababa Drive Rhodes Park,
Lusaka, Zambia
Work: +2601252 558
Fax: +2601254173
d.siame@ifad.org
dnsiame@yahoo.uk