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EU Day 2021

Boosting Agriculture and Food Security (BAFS)

Human Capital Development is one way we are ensuring the sustainability of development partnership. Ambrose James, Director, NAO tells us how each of the programme areas – infrastructure, agriculture, governance and education – plays its part in human capital development in Sierra Leone?

The European Union (EU) Boosting Agriculture and Food Security (BAFS) programme will provide €35 Million to strengthen the agricultural sector in Sierra Leone.

There are three strands to this programme:

  • Increase the policy making capacity of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) to promote sustainable agriculture and food security. Under this objective the institutional capacity of MAF and the Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute will be reinforced and agricultural education and research will be strengthened with support to universities and colleges.
  • Enhance the productivity and profitability of cashew, cocoa and coffee (CCC) farming by: establishing agro-forestry systems for CCC, rehabilitating CCC plantations and replacing old, low yield varieties of plants improving the efficiency and effectiveness of related value chains for export.
  • Foster sustainable agricultural diversification and ensure that small holders have fair market linkages by: encouraging crop diversification and promoting livestock farming. This will include a national vaccination campaign, promoting sustainable agricultural and internal trade and supporting agribusinesses along added value chains.

Building the human capital of smallholder farmers in Sierra Leone can raise productivity, increase livelihoods and improve food security.

MAF District Extension Officers pre-testing Climate Smart Survey Agriculture (CSA) survey tools in Bo District, following an intensive training by the BAFS hired consultant
Handing over of tools and planting materials for the establishment of Climate Smart Agriculture Agriculture (CSA) demo plot to Farmer-Based Organisations (FBOs) in Karene District
Nursery establishment in Tonkolili District: sowing of tamarin taminalia in preparation for the next planting season
Our team together with technical staff of MAF conducting an assessment of lands to support MAF on massive ploughing, harrowing and seeding of rice to respond to the food security effects of covid-19 in Sierra Leone
Identification of Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) Demo Sites in Koinadugu District as part of adoption of CSA approaches in Sierra Leone



Formal handing Over of Office Equipment, Pheromone Traps, motor bikes, digital cameras, knapsack sprayers, set spraying gears, GPS, and other items in Kambia District to aid in the fight against Fall Army Worm in Sierra Leone
H.E the Vice President, Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh launching the 15 grants, as part of GOSL-EU BAFS project investment to improve the agriculture sector in Sierra Leone
Formal handing over of three (3) major crop policies – cashew, cocao and coffee – complete with their implementation plans to MAF
Training of Enumerators for the registration of rice and tree crop farmers in Kambia District

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