Programme for Inclusive Agricultural Transformation (DEFIS)
Main Achievements
✓ Irrigated land rehabilitated completed on 7,618 ha (22% target); construction
under way on 1,608 ha of irrigated areas;
✓ 280 MT of certified seeds & 385,000 coffee seedlings produced by FOS
✓ Delivery of agricultural advisory & extension services to nearly 63,000 family
farms through livestock & farmer field schools
✓ Technical & organizational capacity of 1,789 FOS strengthened
✓ 33 contractual arrangements negotiated between FOs & PS firms (13% target)
✓ On-going policy engagements for the reform of the chamber of agriculture, law on
contract farming, strategy of agriculture service to producers, seed strategy &
investments in basic infrastructure (roads in the South)
Emerging Lessons
JLIFAD FIDA
Selected Results
Need for intensified capacity-building in decentralized rural institutions;
Need to accelerate planned investments in water management infrastructure,
considering potential of each targeted region;
➤ Use of performance triggers, as policy engagement tools have incentivized
Government of Madagascar to introduce policy reforms (e.g. sustainable
funding options for FDA & more investments in roads in the south);
➤ Beneficiaries who are resilient to the impact of the ongoing drought have
access to irrigated areas, multiservice water points, agro-ecological block,
water harvesting technologies (REEPS), access to small ruminants,
technologies for processing cassava into gari, nutrition-sensitive activities (e.g.
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