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Table 5. MINADER Programs and projects involved in supporting food chains (Cont.)

Project / program name Focus of intervention Areas of

intervention

Other

observations

6. Plantain Sector Re-launch
   Program (CSRP)
   Target / beneficiaries:

• Individual or organized (CIG)
  producers of plantains


• Individual or organized (CIG)
  nurseries specializing in of
  plantain plant production


• Small-scale plantain processors


• Small plantain traders
  
  
  • Cover the plantain shortfall at national and sub-regional
    level
  
  
  • Establish a network of professional nurseries
  
  
  • Support for farmers interested in establishing a planta-
    tion of 0.5 to 1 ha.
  
  
  
  

Adamawa and

7 southern

regions of

Cameroon

Ongoing HIPC

funding

7. National Program for Food
   Security (NPFS)
   Target / beneficiaries:

• Small farmers and their orga-
  nizations


• Local decentralized authorities


• NGO partners
  
  
  • Optimum use of natural resource base
  
  
  • Crop Intensification
  
  
  • Diversification of production systems
  
  
  • Processing and marketing of products
  
  
  • Nutrition
  
  
  • Monitoring, warning and crisis response mechanism
  
  
  
  

Countrywide Initial funding

FAO and BIP

MINADER

8. Grassroots Poverty Reduction
   Sub-Program (SPRPB)
   Target / beneficiaries:

• Small farmers and their
  organizations
  
  
  • Training in the development of projects
  
  
  • Financial support for the implementation of beneficiaries’
    eligible micro-projects
  
  
  • Training of producer organizations in project management
  
  
  
  

Countrywide UNDP

9. Maize Sector National
   Support Program (PNAFM)
   Target / beneficiaries:

• Small maize producers and
  their organizations


• Multipliers of improved
  maize seed varieties


• Medium and large maize
  farms but only in terms of
  equipment (support for
  mechanization)
  
  
  • Training of multipliers of improved maize seed varieties
  
  
  • Support producers’ micro projects
  
  
  • Strengthening producers’ capacity
  
  
  
  

• (^) Structuring and organizing value chain stakeholders
(researchers, seed multipliers, seed conditioners maize
producers, input suppliers, traders, transport operators, etc.)
Countrywide Ongoing HIPC
funding

10. Roots and Tubers
    Development Program
    Target / beneficiaries:

• Farmers


• Farmer organizations
  
  
  • Strengthening the capacity of roots and tubers producers
  
  
  • Improved access for producer organizations to local,
    sub-regional and national marketing circuits for roots
    and tubers
  
  
  • Sustainable improvemet of processors’ access to appro-
    priate post-harvest and processing technology
  
  
  • Contribution to the sustainable intensification of roots
    and tubers production through the use of improved
    technologies
  
  
  
  

Far North,

Adamawa,

and 7

southern

regions

Ongoing

project

financed by

IFAD