Niger

CROPS4HD in Niger

In Niger, the project builds on agrobiodiversity, agroecology and institutional strengthening of organizations and the development of local market systems and value chains.

Context

The project builds on the former work on agrobiodiversity, agroecology and institutional strengthening of organizations and the development of local market systems and value chains (among others the policy platform Raya Karkara). Further, the project can benefit and build on a range of documented good practices in the seed saving and producing sector in Niger.

In Niger, the project evolves in the bordering provinces to Mali and Burkina Faso. Interventions focus in the supply side on rural communities. For demand and policy activities, regional centers as well as the capital Niamey are important locations. Through partners, the consortium is as well active at the West African policy forum.

Key Outcomes

Demand
  1. Share of consumers having increased diversity in consumption/frequency of NUS in weekly diet at household level is increased by 12%.
  2. Barriers to access markets for NUS are lowered in four out of six food systems and NUS volume in markets increased.
  3. Share of peasants with access to NUS seeds is increased by 18%.
Supply
  1. 10 crops (NUS crops, non‐NUS crops and NUS varieties) are newly cultivated at farm level.
  2. Volume of NUS leaving farm gate is increased by 30%.
  3. Incomes of 3’600 peasants are increased.
  4. Food security of 4’000 peasants is improved.
  5. Climate resilience of 4’000 peasants is improved.
Policy
  1. Effectiveness of sub‐national policies and legal frameworks in A+FS for small holder farmers is increased.

Recent News

3rd Pan-African Conference on Seed Governance

From August 21 to 23, AFSA organized the 3rd edition of the Pan-African Conference on Seed Governance, in Niamey, Niger, under the theme “Partnership between state and non-state actors for resilient seed systems in Africa.”

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