ONE PAGER 359 - PAA Africa targeting in Niger

Establishing stable institutional demand could positively impact promoting smallholder farmers’ food security and access to institutional the inadequate access of Maradi farmers to markets, particularly regarding markets, and enhancing the food security of school pupils through the price fluctuations and the role of local traders. [...] It targets smallholder farmers as the main participants on the supply side, which has highlighted the importance The limitations and constraints that were found need to be taken into of the availability of key resources (human, institutional, factors of production consideration in any discussion on targeting resource-constrained, poor etc.) to ensure the feasibility of the intervention. [...] These include the needs and capacities of farmers vis-à-vis the tools available for purchasing their production and maintaining a steady Niger is one the poorest countries in the world, ranked 187th on the 2014 Human supply while investing in crop diversification. [...] Targeting criteria and results - By combining a geographic targeting of the Maradi Approach centred on FOs: Counting on FOs as the programme’s entry point region with criteria relating to the productive potential of farmers’ organisations has the advantage of increasing ownership and facilitating the provision of (FOs), and individual targeting at the community level to reach the most services. [...] The Purchase from Africans for Africa (PAA Africa) programme is a joint initiative between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the governments of Brazil, the United Kingdom, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger and Senegal to Findings and recommendations - The PAA Niger results demonstrate the support pilot initiatives of purchasing.