One tractor is increasing agricultural production and yield in 27 villages

The multiple roles the tractor plays make it a lucrative investment. They use it for tilling the ground, transporting sand and stones for housing (Photo taken from Sunu Rew shows a tractor parked at Bansang Hospital)

Causeway increases rice production by two folds

Mr. Banjul Yaffa, a Contact Farmer showing previously inaccessible land at the Masembe rice fields to a regional agricultural director and an agriculture expert (Photo Credit: MSJoof/TNBES)

Gambia: Enhancing food security will take national vision, local action

More than 170 project staff and beneficiaries taking part in the annual consultative forum (Photo credit: M.S.Joof/TNBES/Feb 2017)

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.

IFAD President to meet President Jammeh

Kanayo F. Nwanze will arrive in Banjul on Wednesday (Poto: Taken from Mansa Banko) Several officials overseeing agricultural projects, including IFAD-funded projects, were sent to jail in June, some, over allegations of theft. It is not clear if Nwanze's talks with Jammeh will touch on such issues.

Gambian blogger Mamadou Edrisa Njie writes about social media 'success story'

Is social media the next gold mine for Gambian youth?

Mamadou Edrisa Njie (R) photo: Facebook/Niani Edrisanjie Kanda

If someone had told me that a few years ago that using the social media will one day land me in a job, I would have totally disagreed with that person, be it an expert, a researcher or a fortuneteller. In fact, this wasn’t because I didn’t know what social media was all about but mainly because I was ONLY passionately on Facebook to chart with friends with some that I don’t know.

Here I am, [I] have signed a six month-contract with one of the best IT Service Providers in The Gambia to be its “Social Media Administrator”. A post I only knew existed during the signing of the contract.

Being born and brought up in the rural community of The Gambia where young people trek several kilometers to access internet to use the social media-Facebook and Skype, today, I count myself a one of the luckiest to have had the opportunity to access the social media anytime, anywhere thanks to an IPAD provided by Global Youth Innovation Network (GYIN) International.

3 IFAD-funded projects in Gambia in final phase-out stages

IFAD and local project officials visit a rice field in Central River Region of the Gambia under the Ifad-funded PIWAMP project (Photo credit: M.E.Njie)

Gambia: IFAD link farmers with microfinance institutions

Farmers listening keenly to statements that suggest saving with microfinance institutions will help them access loans easily (Photo Credit: Mamadou Edrisa NJie)

Consider plight of farmers, ensure their livelihoods are improved - LRR Governor tells IFAD-funded project

Photo Credit: IFAD-Afrique

The governor of Lower River Region, LRR, Lamin D. Darboe has challenge the Participatory Integrated Watershed Management Project (PIWAMP) to consider the plight of the farmers and ensure that their livelihoods are improved.

Poor Kuntaur and Janjanbureh highlight Gambia’s MDGs off target

L-R: Info minister Bala Garba Jahumpa, Finance minister Abdou Kolley, IFAD WCA Director Ides de Willebois, and Agriculture minister Solomon Owens/PHOTO/m.e.NJIE

Poverty is highest in rural-Gambia where 73.9 percent (%) people live in poverty compared to 32.7% in urban-Gambia. In 2011, Kuntaur and Janjanbureh local government areas in the central river regions (CRR north and south), like the 2003 Integrated Household Survey (IHS) have the highest poverty rates with 79 and 73.2 percent respectively.

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IFAD to fund US$34 million project to increase food security in Gambia

A rice field in Central River Region of the Gambia under the Ifad-funded PIWAMP project

Agribusiness fair to link stakeholders in food chain

PHOTO BY M.E. NJIE

An Agribusiness Fair dubbed “Lumo in the city” slated for November 11-17, 2012 at Dream Park, Senegambia, is intended to create linkages between farmers, fishermen, and gardeners consumers, buyers and suppliers in an effective manner.

 

The organisers said on Tuesday that bringing together stakeholders in the food chain will enhance effective communication between the business sector and the community at large. More than 65 participants are expected to attend the fair.

Banjul to host IFAD’s 7th Regional Forum

Ms. Géraldine Mpouma Logmo

The Gambian capital, Banjul will play host to this year’s 7^th Regional Forum for IFAD-funded projects scheduled from 12^th to 15^th November, 2012.

 

The forum, which is organized and financed jointly with projects and the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of the Gambia, will bring together projects funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in West and Central Africa Division (WCA).

PIWAMP scores forth in IFAD fiduciary rating

By Mamadou Edrisa Njie

 Participatory Integrated Watershed Management Project (PIWAMP), a demand-driven project co-funded by the Government of The Gambia (GOTG), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the African Development Bank (AfDB), has been ranked fourth in IFAD’s fiduciary rating 2011.

The design of PIWAMP was built on the successful experience of the concluded Lowland Agricultural Development Project (LADEP), its achievements, effects, impacts, as well as the strengths and shortcomings.