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IFAD in Swaziland: voices from the field

© SWADE 		The Lower Ususthu Smallholder Irrigation Project

(LUSIP) is a poverty alleviation initiative in the south-eastern Lowveld of Swaziland. The project promotes the allocation of water rights to smallholders who have historically been denied water rights in favour of large commercial ventures. LUSIP provides irrigation water to estimated 2600 farmers to convert more than 6500 hectares land currently used for rain fed subsistence agriculture to irrigate commercial cash crop production.

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Statistics
Projects: 4

Total cost:
US$142.4 million

IFAD loan:
US$34.3 million

Directly benefiting:
31,200 households
Contact Information

Louise McDonald
Country programme manager
Via Paolo di Dono, 44
Rome, Italy
Work: +39 0654592497
Fax: +39 0654593497
l.mcdonald@ifad.org