In a major step towards ensuring all-year-round vegetable production in ROOTS-supported vegetable gardens across the country, the project has brought together 62 participants in Jarra Madina from 28 women-led gardens across the country.
The Objective of the knowledge-sharing initiative is to empower farmers with practical knowledge on how to prepare raised beds for vegetable production in the rainy season, compost making, pest and disease surveillance, and management. This is geared towards building farmers’ capacity for a better production Season.
The Resilience of Organizations for Transformative Smallholder Agriculture Project (ROOTS) was launched on 09 February 2021, with co-funding from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), the GEF Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF), the French Development Agency (AFD), the Government of the Gambia and the Project’s beneficiaries.
The main goal of ROOTS is to improve food security, nutrition and resilience of smallholder farmers to climate change in The Gambia. Its development objective is to increase agricultural productivity and access to markets for enhanced food security and nutrition and for the resilience of family farms and Farming Organizations. To achieve its objectives, the project will support targeted investments in infrastructure and the technical and organizational capacities of farmers’ organizations, particularly youth and women.
