| ID: | 82903 |
|---|---|
| Country: | Nigeria |
| Title: | Nigeria - Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP) – November 2023 |
| Description: |
VCDP has provided women with training on best practices for cultivating the orange flesh sweet potato, or OFSP, and to understand its nutritional benefits. The variety, which is rich in vitamins such as calcium, phosphorus and iron, is good for pregnant women, diabetics, and for combating vitamin A deficiency in children. It can be eaten in almost every form and manner with the peels serving as animal feed. And it provides a good income-generating opportunity for women gardeners. OFSP can be used to make many different value-added products, such as flour and made with sweet potato flour, for which there is high demand. A variety of snacks, drinks and even garri made from the potato, provide good nutrition and health benefits, as well as good income. The Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP), which started its activities in 2014, works in close coordination with local government across nine states—Anambra, Benue, Ebonyi, Enugu, Kogi, Nasarawa, Niger, Ogun, and Taraba—on developing cassava and rice value chains for smallholder farmers, rolling out development initiatives that aim to reduce post-harvest losses, strengthen food security and accelerate economic growth. Building strong public-private-producer partnerships (4Ps) has provided a solid pathway for reaching sustainable transformation in rural communities where agriculture is a mainstay of economic activity. VCDP helps households adopt sustainable and climate resilient practices, as well as dietary diversity that leads to better nutrition and health benefits. The project has benefited almost 100,000 rural people, in particular women and youth. The number of households living in poverty has decreased by almost 50 per cent, while agricultural income of more than 60 per cent of VCDP-supported beneficiaries has increased by 25 per cent. |
| Size: | 15.42 MB; 6480 x 4320 pixels; 549 x 366 mm (print at 300 DPI); 1714 x 1143 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Show more details: | Andrew Esiebo |
| Copyright: | ©IFAD/Andrew Esiebo |
| Categories: | New from West and Central Africa |
| URL: | www.ifad.org |
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