Enabling poor rural people to over come poverty
Republic of Uganda
Area-Based Agricultural Modernization Programme
PROJECT PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT
Enabling poor rural people to over come poverty
International Fund for
Agricultural Development
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E-mail: evaluation@ifad.org www.ifad.org/evaluation February 2012
Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD
Republic of Uganda
Area-Based Agricultural Modernization Programme
Project Performance Assessment
February 2012
Report No. 2540-UG
Document of the International Fund for Agricultural Development
Photos:
Front cover: Katojo Market. Markets built by the Area-Based Agricultural Modernization Programme have created employment for over 5,700 people engaged in different types of activities.
Page vi: Land has been allocated to the enterprises and improved agricultural technologies have been adopted, through the project, leading to increased yields of important marketable crops, such as potatoes, pineapple, and bananas.
Back cover: Private investors noticed the profitability of the programme’s milk coolers and acquired similar coolers (left); The establishment of savings and credit cooperatives (SACCOs) helped facilitate farmers’ engagement in productive agricultural enterprises.
@IFAD/Oanh Nguyen
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References: Programme. December 8-9, 1999 IFAD: Area-Based Agricultural Modernization Programme — Project Loan Agreement. February 15, 2002.