The USAID-funded Rural Resilience Activity seeks to increase smallholder household incomes and reduce poverty in Northeastern Nigeria through their improved participation in inclusive agribusiness value chains and market opportunities. The Activity interventions are delivered in line with the market systems development framework placing at the centre the need to unlock bottlenecks that weaken market relationships and limit inclusive profitable participation. The Activity seeks to improve the resilience capacities of conflict-affected households, communities, and market systems using market-led approaches layered with complementary investments in humanitarian assistance in order to contribute to economic recovery and growth. Working closely with public, political civil society, and economic actors, the activity seeks to broaden and support inclusive and resilient growth through agricultural competitiveness. The Activity objectives include:
– inclusive and sustainable agriculture-led economic growth
– strengthened resilience among people and systems; and
– a well-nourished population, especially women and children, thereby contributing to sustainable reductions in global hunger, malnutrition, and poverty.
The Activity seeks to offer opportunities that will yield partnerships to at least 50,000 smallholder farmers in the project locations as a strategy for reactivating their recovery and deepening their resiliency to the impact of conflict.
DDI’s Role:
With the USAID-funded Feed the Future Nigeria Rural Resilience Activity, through Mercy Corps Nigeria, DDI will be deploying a markets system approach to facilitate improved access to agricultural inputs for farmers, provide linkages with processors, and strengthen the capacity of weak producer organizations in the north-eastern states of Borno, Adamawa, Yobe and Gombe, targeting 400+ Smallholder Farmers (SHFs) / producer organizations (POs).
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