EU-MDG’s Initiative

The project is funded by the EU and is aimed at improving food security and reducing hunger in the intervention areas; thereby contributing to the Gambia’s achievement of MDG 1c. It has two components, the first is production enhancement under the responsibility of the FAO, focusing on rice and 8 major horticultural crops in the targeted areas. The second component is a school feeding programme and marketing, under the responsibility of the WFP which purpose is to supply nutritious food to over 42,000 school children and serve as a catalyst and an incentive to farmers, targeted by the first component, to produce large quantities to be sold directly to the school feeding programme.