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  • Projects and activities | 20 Oct 2021

INV Niger

Global Food and Nutrition Security

Brief me

The objective of the project is to contribute to improving the resilience of Nigerien families to climate change, through innovation in irrigated agro systems. The first specific objective is the strengthening of governance and management of water resources and irrigated agro systems. The second is the agro ecological intensification of agricultural production in irrigated agro systems by facilitating market access and the inclusion of vulnerable groups.

The project will work to strengthen multi-scale planning and management of water resources for agriculture. The actions will be entrusted to an institutional innovation center for the management and governance of water resources for irrigation (PIM). Actions will consist of improving and modernizing the planning, management and governance of water resources, by strengthening the capacities of the competent public bodies, in interaction with university and research establishments. Actions will also include developing information and monitoring systems focused on the sustainable development of irrigation in Niger.