World Bank approves IDA credits US$45 mn in support of WAAPP
30 Mar '07
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The food and cash crops whose production the WAAPP sets out to boost provide the greatest contribution to the region's agricultural growth and to producers' incomes. Sustained productivity is critical if the region is to significantly raise agricultural yield, which are so important in meeting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving extreme poverty by 2015.
“The region's consumers, particularly those affected by extreme poverty, are the ultimate beneficiaries of the WAAPP. Agricultural producers and agribusinesses, as users of the improved technology, are the primary beneficiaries of the program,” said Ismael Ouedraogo, the World Bank Task Team Leader of the Project.
The WAAPP is a sub-regional program shared by all fifteen member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) – Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.
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