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Chapter 3. Analytical review of national investment strategies and agricultural policies in West Africa 101

Table 1. Summary of intervention components in National Agricultural Investment Programs

Country Major investment components Priority

sectors

Incentive instruments /

strategies

Estimated

cost

Togo 1. Sustainable natural resource management

2. Rural infrastructures


3. Development of food sectors


4. Development of cash crop sectors

Cereals, roots

and tubers,

legumes, cotton,

coffee cocoa

and animal

products

• Improved seed production
  and distribution


• Mechanization


• Promoting Small and
  Medium-sized Enterprises


• Support to veterinary food
  and products supply

570 billion

XOF over

5 years

Benin 1. Development of agriculture

2. Livestock Development


3. Development of fisheries and aquaculture


4. Sector management and administration

Maize, rice,

cassava, yams,

cotton, pine-

apples, cashew

nuts, oil palm,

horticulture,

meat, eggs, fish

and shrimp

• Seeds, quality fertilizer,
  appropriate funding avail-
  able


• Appropriate mechanization


• Access to knowledge and
  professionalism


• Land securing and
  management, market
  access

436 billion

XOF over

five years

Nigeria 1. Developing agricultural policy and regulatory

system

2. Agricultural commodity market


3. Raising agricultural income with sustainable
   environment


4. Maximizing agricultural revenue in key
   enterprises


5. Water, aquaculture and environment
   resources management

Rice, cotton,

horticulture,

cassava, cocoa,

wheat, palm oil,

livestock, maize

and sorghum

• Rehabilitate and complete
  existing irrigation projects


• Facilitate acquisition of
  farmlands and title holding
  for agricultural production


• Ensure a high level of
  production, adoption and
  utilization of appropriate
  technology


• Create a new generation
  of farmers

13 billion

naira over

three years

Ghana 1. Food security and emergency preparedness

2. Improve growth in incomes and reduced
   income variability


3. Increase competitiveness and enhanced
   integration into domestic and international
   markets


4. Sustainable land and water management


5. Science and technology applied in food and
   agriculture development


6. Enhanced institutional coordination

Cocoa, oil palm,

cotton, cassava,

sorghum, rice,

maize, millet,

yam, cocoyam

• Ensure a high level of
  production, adoption and
  utilization of appropriate
  technology


• Create a new generation
  of farmers


• Development of pilot value
  chains for two selected
  commodities in each
  ecological zone

416,1

million

USD over

five years

Mali 1. Horticulture sector development

2. Irrigated agriculture development


3. Livestock sector development


4. Fisheries and aquaculture development


5. Decentralized management of natural
   resources and wildlife preservation


6. Support and assistance measures

Rice, maize,

wheat,

sorghum, millet,

fonio, Cotton,

mango, potato

and onion

1 614,7

billion XOF

over 5

years