AFD provides €8 million in a project to support ecological transition in five ECOWAS nations, Togo included

Agriculture
Wednesday, 02 May 2018 14:56
AFD provides €8 million in a project to support ecological transition in five ECOWAS nations, Togo included

(Togo First) - The project to support agro-ecological transition in West Africa (PATAE) was launched April 27, in Abuja. The project currently covers Burkina Faso, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal and Togo. 

With €8 million (CFA5 billion), AFD supports this project which will extend over four years, from 2018 to 2021. 

PATAE will in detail finance field projects supporting agro-ecological intensification and experience-sharing, to help draw public policies, according to ECOWAS top authorities.

According to ECOWAS commissioner for agriculture, environment and water resources, Sékou Sangaré, this initiative will foster ecological transition in agriculture, food and nutritional security in West Africa, especially in areas with arable land degradation, low rain and natural resources degradation issues. 

According to Sangaré, PATAE will be an experimentation field which will later be expanded to other member-States of ECOWAS.

Fiacre E. Kakpo

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