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More than 170 project staff and beneficiaries taking part in the annual consultative forum
(Photo credit: M.S.Joof/TNBES/Feb 2017)
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For Gambia to enhance food security,
strategy and implementation must be linked to attain food security and reduce
poverty, the Agriculture Ministry’s permanent secretary Sait Drammeh said.
“Enhancing food security will take [a]
national vision and local action,” he told the 2016 Nema project consultative
forum on Wednesday at Jenoi, Gambia’s lower river region (LRR).
The National Agricultural
Land and Water Management Project (Nema),
which phases out in 2019, seeks to support increased agricultural production,
improve farmers’ income, expand rural employment, and reduce food insecurity
and rural poverty.
Speaking through a representative,
Drammeh said the annual forum should be a standard practice for all projects
because it provides for a platform to share progress, challenges and solutions.
Abou Njie, deputy governor of LRR, said
it is important that the forum builds on last year’s challenges for the 2017
work plan.
Nema Project director Momodou Gassama
said it is important for the participants to contribute fully in the sessions
to further the implementation process of the project.
He said more of the work of the Nema
project will continue along providing access roads to rice fields, constructing
water retention dykes in rice fields, markets among other interventions.
The Nema project is designed to build
on the achievements and experiences of earlier IFAD-supported projects in the agricultural sector.
The total cost of the project is $84.1
million with IFAD financing up to $39.4 million (its biggest single
intervention) in The Gambia.
Written by Modou S. Joof
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